TAILIEUCHUNG - European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2007)

To assess the prevalence of overweight, obesity and underweight among Vietnamese adults living in urban areas of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam. Design: This cross-sectional survey was conducted in the local health stations of 30 randomly selected wards, which represent all 13 urban districts of HCMC, over a period of 2 months from March to April 2004. | European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2007 61 673-681 2007 Nature Publishing Group All rights reserved 0954-3007 07 ejcn ORIGINAL ARTICLE Obesity in adults an emerging problem in urban areas of Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam TQ Cuong1 MJ Dibley2 S Bowe2 TTM Hanh1 and TTH Loan1 1Nutrition Centre Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam and 2Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Faculty of Health University of Newcastle Newcastle New South Wales Australia Objective To assess the prevalence of overweight obesity and underweight among Vietnamese adults living in urban areas of Ho Chi Minh City HCMC Vietnam. Design This cross-sectional survey was conducted in the local health stations of 30 randomly selected wards which represent all 13 urban districts of HCMC over a period of 2 months from March to April 2004. Subjects A total of 1488 participants aged 20-60 years completed the interview physical examination and venous blood collection. Measurements Anthropometric measurements of body weight height waist and hip circumference were taken to construct indicators of adiposity including body mass index BMI waist circumference and waist-to-height and waist-to-hip ratios. Both systolic and diastolic blood pressure and biochemical indicators of cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes risk lipid profile and fasting blood glucose were also measured. Results The age and sex standardized prevalence of overweight and obesity using Asian specific BMI cutoffs of and kg m2 was and respectively. The prevalence of overweight and obesity was slightly higher in females than males and progressively increased with age. The age and sex-standardized prevalence of underweight BMI kg m2 among Vietnamese adults living in HCMC was . The prevalence was slightly higher in males than in females and there was a much higher prevalence in all underweight categories in younger women than in men but this was reversed for

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