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Dietary factors related to body weight in adult Vietnamese in the rural area of Haiphong, Vietnam
Author(s) -
Hwang JiYun,
Kim Sun Hye,
Lee Yo A,
Chung Hye Won,
Nguyet Tran Thi Phuc,
Chang Namsoo,
Kim Wha Young
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.24.1_supplement.737.6
Subject(s) - overweight , underweight , vietnamese , medicine , overeating , obesity , cross sectional study , demography , environmental health , rural area , gerontology , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , sociology
This study was to examine the association between dietary factors and underweight and overweight adult Vietnamese living in the rural areas of Haiphong, Vietnam. A cross‐sectional study of 497 Vietnamese aged 19 to 60 years was conducted and subjects were classified as underweight, normal weight, and overweight based on BMI. A high prevalence of both underweight (BMI<18.5 kg/m 2 ) and overweight (BMI ≥23 kg/m 2 ) was observed (14.2% and 21.6% for males and 18.9% and 20.6% for females, respectively). For both genders, the overweight group were older than the under‐ and normal weight groups (P=0.0118 for males and P=0.0002 for females). In females, the overweight group consumed significantly less cereals (P=0.0033), energy (P=0.0046), protein (P=0.0222), and carbohydrate (P=0.0006) and more fruits (P=0.0026) than the underweight group; however, no such differences existed in males. The overweight subjects overate more frequently (P=0.0295) and consumed fish (P=0.0096) and fruits (P=0.0083) more often. The prevalence of both underweight and overweight individuals pose serious public health problems in the rural areas of Vietnamese and the overweight group was related to overeating and high fish and fruit consumption. This work was supported by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Brain Korea 21 project in 2009.