OBJECTIVE: to evaluate the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children, adolescents, adults and elderlies from Northeast and Southeast regions of Brazil. METHODS: anthropometric evaluation of 17.184 people, studied in Life Pattern Research conducted by Brazilian Institute of Geographic and Statistics in 1996/97, by body mass index. Overweight and obesity definitions according to body mass index values proposed by Cole et al. which are related to adult definition. RESULTS: It was studied a little more females in this study (53.1%). Average age was 29 years and five months ( +/- 20 years), median was 25 years and six months. Overweight prevalence was 10.8% in children, 9.9% in adolescents and 28.3% among adults and obesity was 7.3%, 1.8% and 9.7% respectively. It was noticed a gradual increase in overweight or obesity prevalence since infancy through adult age with decrease among the elderly. CONCLUSION: Prevalence of overweight and obesity joined is higher among females. More than half of the women among 50 and 69 years old, from Northeast and Southeast regions of Brazil have overweight or obesity. There are few studies of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents and a lot of definition for obesity in children which makes more difficult the comparison of studies of prevalence among children.
OBJECTIVE: to evaluate the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children, adolescents, adults and elderlies from Northeast and Southeast regions of Brazil. METHODS: anthropometric evaluation of 17.184 people, studied in Life Pattern Research conducted by Brazilian Institute of Geographic and Statistics in 1996/97, by body mass index. Overweight and obesity definitions according to body mass index values proposed by Cole et al. which are related to adult definition. RESULTS: It was studied a little more females in this study (53.1%). Average age was 29 years and five months ( +/- 20 years), median was 25 years and six months. Overweight prevalence was 10.8% in children, 9.9% in adolescents and 28.3% among adults and obesity was 7.3%, 1.8% and 9.7% respectively. It was noticed a gradual increase in overweight or obesity prevalence since infancy through adult age with decrease among the elderly. CONCLUSION: Prevalence of overweight and obesity joined is higher among females. More than half of the women among 50 and 69 years old, from Northeast and Southeast regions of Brazil have overweight or obesity. There are few studies of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents and a lot of definition for obesity in children which makes more difficult the comparison of studies of prevalence among children.
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