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- Title
Anthropometric Indices of Obesity and Potential Health Risk in Adult Rural Population from Bačka and Banat - The Republic of Serbia.
- Authors
Pavlica, Tatjana; Rakić, Rada; Sakač, Dejan
- Abstract
Obesity, along with other unhealthy living habits, nowadays represents one of the greatest risk factors for various dis-eases. Vojvodina is a part of Serbia where a high percentage of the overweight has been recorded since the period of for-mer Yugoslavia. The aim of this study therefore was to determine the percentage of adults with potential health risk us-ing the indices of obesity. The anthropological study was conducted from 2001 to 2006. The tested group consisted of 4504 individuals, 1965 men and 2539 women. The mean age of the sample was 40.61±11.29. The data were collected in 46 villages in Ba~ka and Banat, in the central and north-east parts of Vojvodina, situated in the north of Serbia. The in-vestigation included the height, weight, waist and hip circumference. Nutritional condition was determined using the body mass index (BMI kg/m2), while the waist circumference and WHR were used for assessing the central obesity. Ac-cording to the average BMI (26.86 kg/m2 males, 25.80 kg/m2 females), the population of Bačka and Banat is character-ised with pre-obesity. In total, 58.47% individuals of both sexes are with excessive body weight, 38.52% of them being classified as overweight and 19.48% as obese. Central obesity is more frequent in males aged up to 40, while in females it is more present above the age of 50. A higher waist circumference (males >94 cm; females >80 cm) is observed in 58% of males and 55% of females, with the risk value (males >102 cm; females >88 cm) recorded in 32% of men and women. The indices of obesity indicate a potential health risk for more than a half of the subjects in this study. The data therefore point to the necessity of introducing educational programs for promoting good nutrition and healthy living habits that would ultimately reduce the number of individuals with health risk.
- Subjects
PUBLIC health research; ANTHROPOMETRY research; OBESITY; HEALTH risk assessment; BODY mass index; WAIST-hip ratio; HEALTH promotion; HEALTH behavior
- Publication
Collegium Antropologicum, 2014, Vol 38, Issue 1, p227
- ISSN
0350-6134
- Publication type
Article