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Prevalence of overweight and obesity in Down's syndrome and other mentally handicapped adults living in the community
Author(s) -
BELL A. J.,
BHATE M. S.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1992.tb00534.x
Subject(s) - overweight , obesity , medicine , population , down syndrome , mentally retarded , intellectual disability , gerontology , pediatrics , psychology , psychiatry , environmental health , developmental psychology
. To find out the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the mentally handicapped, 183 subjects living in the community were studied; 58 of whom had Down's syndrome. It was found that 70–58% of males and 95–83% of females with Down's syndrome, and 49–29% males and 62–96% females from other mentally handicapped subjects, were categorized as overweight and obese, compared with 40% of males and 32% females in that category from normal population.