Prevalence of obesity and overweight and their related factors among the adults of Mazandaran Province, Iran, in 2010
Keywords:
body mass index (BMI), overweight, obesity, IranAbstract
Background: Obesity is an unpleasant outcome of changes in the behavior and lifestyle, and it leads to premature inability and loss of job in most cases. This study aimed at determining the prevalence of obesity and overweight conditions and some related factors among the adults in Mazandaran Province, Iran.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2010. The data collection tool was a standard questionnaire provided by the World Health organization (WHO).The sample of this study was selected from all people in the age range of 15 to 64 who lived in the urban and rural areas of Mazandaran Province. The researchers studied 1000 people (500 males and 500 females). The data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, chi-squared, linear regression, and Logistic regression in SPSS version 16 software.
Results: The average and the standard deviation of Body Mass Index (BMI) of the participants was 27.36±6.04 (25.76±4.5 for males and 28.95±6.9 for females), and the average prevalence of overweight was 34% (males: 35.8%, females: 32.2%); the average incidence of obesity was 28.4% (males: 17.8%, females: 39%).It was found that age groups of 35-44 (OR: 3.1, CI: 95%: 1.7-5.8), 45-54 (OR: 3.1, CI: 95%: 1.7-5.8), and 55-64 (OR: 4.02, CI: 95%: 2.1-7.5) and being a housewife (OR: 2.3, 95% CI: 1.03-5.1) were predictive of BMI values equal to or greater than 30.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the prevalence of overweight and obesity was significant among people of Mazandaran Province. Therefore, it is recommended that educational-research centers and health authorities look for appropriate strategies to reduce the prevalence of this problem.
References
Shah SM, Nanan D, Rahbar MH, Rahim M, Nowshad G. Assessing obesity and overweight in a highmountain Pakistani population. Trop Med Int Health, 2004; 9: 526-32. PMID: 15078272
Haghdoost AA, Moosazadeh M. The prevalence of cigarette smoking among students of Iran’s universities:A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Res Med Sci 2013;18:717-25. PMID: 24379851. PMCID:PMC3872614.3.Kathryn B, Louis L. Obesity and the metabolic syndrome. Am J Crit Care, 2003;12:167-70. PMID:12625176.4.Afshari M, Amiresmaili M, Moosazadeh M, Nezammahalleh A. Prevalence of overweight and obesity innorthern Iran: an individual patient data meta-analysis. HealthMed, 2013; 7(3): 877-835.5. Franks PW, Hanson RL, Knowler WC, Sievers ML, Bennett PH, Looker HC. Childhood obesity, othercardiovascular risk factors, and premature death.N Engl J Med. 2010; 362(6):485-93. PMID: 20147714.doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa09041306.Groessl EJ, Kaplan RM, Barrett-Connor E, Ganiats TG. Body mass index and quality of well-being in acommunity of older adults. Am J Prev Med, 2004;26: 126–9. PMID: 14751323.7.Moosazadeh M, Salami F, Movahednia M, Moqaddasi Amiri M, Afshari M. Prevalence of smoking innorthwest Iran: a meta-analysis. Electronic Physician, 2014; 6 (1): 734-40.8.Wang Y, Beydoun MA, Liang L, Caballero B, Kumanyika SK. Will all Americans become overweight orobese? Estimating the progression and cost of the US obesity epidemic. Obesity, 2008;16(10): 2323-30.PMID: 18719634. doi: 10.1038/oby.2008.351.9.Chou SY, Grossman M, Saffer H. An economic analysis of adult obesity: results from the Behavioral RiskFactor Surveillance System.J Health Econ, 2004; 23(3):565-87. PMID: 15120471.10.Jafar TH, Chaturvedi N, Pappas G. Prevalence of overweight and obesity and their association withhypertension and diabetes mellitus in an Indo-Asian population. CMAJ, 2006; 175(9):1071. PMID:17060656. PMCID: PMC1609152.11.Scholze Jr, Grimm E, Herrmann D, Unger T. Optimal Treatment of Obesity-Related Hypertension TheHypertension-Obesity-Sibutramine (HOS) Study. Circulation, 2007; 115(15): 1991-8. PMID: 1740416312.Gharipour M, Mohamadifard N, Asgary S, Naderi GH. The prevalence of obesity and cardiovascular riskfactor in Isfahan. J Qazvin Univ MedSci, 2003;26:53-64.13.Fontaine KR, Redden DT, Wang C, Westfall AO, Allison DB. Years of Life Lost Due to Obesity. JAMA,2003;289: 187-93. PMID: 12517229.14.Hassan MK, Joshi AV, Madhavan SS, Amonkar MM. Obesity and health–related quality of life: a cross–sectional analysis of the US population .Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 2003; 27: 1227-32. PMID:14513071.15.Sturm R. Increases in clinically severe obesity in the United States, 1986-2000. Arch Intern Med, 2003;163: 2146-8. PMID: 14557211.16.Deitel M. Overweight and obesity worldwide now estimated to involve 1.7 billion people. Obes Surg,2003; 13(3):329-30. PMID: 12852397.17.Nasehi M, Moosazadeh M, Amiresmaeili M, parsaee M, Zakizadeh R, Mirzajani M. Prevalence of FiveMain Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases in Mazandaran Province: A Population Based Study. JMazandaran Univ Med Sci. 2012; 21 (86) :193-202.18.Bessesen DH. Update on obesity. J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 2008;93(6):2027-34. PMID: 18539769. doi:10.1210/jc.2008-0520.19.Abdollahi A, Bhnampur N, Vagari G, Bazrafshan H. The Correlation Between Age, Gender and Educationwith Obesity in Urban Population of Golestan Province. Iran J Endocrinol Metab, 2010;12 (3):276-82.20.Khatib O. Non communicable diseases: risk factors and regional strategies for prevention and care. EastMediterr Health J, 2004;10(6):778-88. PMID: 16335764.21.Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases. World Health Organ Tech Rep Ser, 2003:916.PMID: 12768890.22.Mirzazadeh A, Sadeghirad B, Haghdoost AA, Bahreini F, Kermani MR. The prevalence of obesity in Iranin recent decade; a systematic review and meta-analysis study. Iran J Public Health, 2009;38(3).23.Hajian-Tilaki KO, Heidari B. Prevalence of obesity, central obesity and the associated factors in urbanpopulation aged 20–70years, in the north of Iran: a population based study and regression approach. ObesRev, 2007;8(1):3-10. PMID: 17212790.24.Mirzazadeh A, Haghazali M, Esghari F and Aghajani H. Non-Comunicable Diseases Risk FactorsSurveillance Provincial Report Islamic Republic Of Iran-2007, publication: the Center of Disease Control&Management, Ministry of Health and Medical Education Deputy for Health, 2010.25.Moosazadeh M. Report of surveillance system fifth of non-communicable Disease in Mazandaran provincein 2009 years. Roojin Mehr Publication, 2011; 1: 1-16
Khaodhiar L, Blackburn GL. Obesity assessment. Am Heart J, 2001; 142: 1095–101. PMID: 11717618.27.Cole TJ, Bellizzi MC, Flegal KM, Dietz WH. Establishing a standard definition for child overweight andobesity worldwide: international survey. BMJ, 2000; 320:1240-3. PMID: 10797032. PMCID: PMC27365.28.Salem Z, Sheikh fathollahi M, Sajjadi A. An epidemiological study on obesity and central obesity amongadults above 30 yerse old in Refsanjan. Proceeding of the Second Congress on Prevention of non-Contagions Diseases, Tehran, Iran, 2001;105.29.Talaei A, Amini M, Alikhani S, Delavari A, Mahdavi A. Waist circumference Cut off in Relation toHypertension in Iran. Iran J Endocrinol Metab, 2008; 4: 375-82.30.Naghashpour M, Shakerinejad GH, Haghighizadeh MH, Hajinajaf S, Jarvandi F. Prevalence of Obesity andits Association with Demographic Indices in Referents to University Jahad Khozestan Clinic, ScientificMedical Journal, 2011;10(1): 21-35.31.Finer N. Medical consequences of obesity. Medicine, 2006;34(12):510-4.32.Flegal KM, Graubard BS, Williamson D, Gail MH. Excess deaths associated with underweight, overweightandobesity. JAMA, 2005;293:1861-7. PMID: 15840860.33.King T, Kavanagh AM, Jolley D, Turrell G, Crawford D. Weight and place: a multilevel cross-sectionalsurvey of area-level social disadvantage and overweight/obesity in Australia. Int J Obes (Lond). 2005;30(2):281-7. PMID: 16331302.34.Andre P, Balkau B, Born C, Royer B, Wilpart E, Charles MA, et al. Hepatic markers and development oftype 2 diabetes in middle aged men and women: a three-year follow-up study: The DESIR study (Datafrom an Epidemiological Study on the Insulin Resistance syndrome). Diabetes Metab, 2005; 31(6):542-50.PMID: 16357802.35.Hajian K, Heidari B. Prevalence of obesity and its associated factors in population aged 20 to 70 years inurban areas of Mazandaran. J Mazandaran Univ Med Sci, 2006; 16(55):107-17.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2020 Knowledge Kingdom Publishing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
