Title: PREVALENCE OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY IN BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND SUPPORT EMPLOYEES 12
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of overweight and obesity on 400 employees (211 women and 189 men) from the Federal University in Santa Catarina, Brasil. The sample was randomly selected according to 5 age groups (≤29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59,≥60) and sex. Body mass index (BMI) was utilized to determine overweight and obesity according to the cut-off points suggested by WHO (1990) (overweight BMI from 25 to 29,9 kg/m2 and obesity BMI ≥30 kg/m2). The data showed a total prevalence of overweight and obesity in 48.7% of men and 39.8% of women. In both sexes the higher percentage of overweight employees occurred on the 50-59 age group. Obesity tended to increase until age 40-49 on the male group and for females a tendency to increase until age 50-59 years. In conclusion: it was possible to detect a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity on these male employee groups compared to a national study done in 1989, where it was found a total prevalence of overweight and obesity on 39.4% in females and 29% for males. From this point there is a necessity to improve physical activity programms and to get adherence mainly from the male group that seems to be in a higher health risk. Table
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-05-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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