Prevalence Of Overweight And Obesity In Malaysia

The figures are grim in malaysia too.

Prevalence of overweight and obesity in malaysia. A total of 4428 adults 18 years old from 5 different selected regions in peninsular and east malaysia participated in this health survey. Overweight and obesity has been emerging as one of the most common and preventable nutritional problems worldwide. According to the world population review 2019 malaysia has the highest prevalence of obesity among adults in southeast asia at 15 6 percent followed by brunei 14 1 percent thailand 10 0. Using world health organization recommendations for body mass index bmi the prevalence of overweight and obesity were found to be 33 6 95 ci 32 2 35 0 and 19 5 95 ci 18 3 20 7 respectively.

This study aim at continue monitoring the prevalence and its associations as it is strongly related to cardiovascular death 4. In malaysia ncds were estimated to account for 74 of all deaths in 2016 2 the prevalence of obesity increased from 4 4 in 1996 to 12 3 in 2004 10 11 the national health and morbidity surveys nhmss carried out in 2006 2011 and 2015 showed further increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among adults 18 years from 29 1 and. In malaysia the prevalence of overweight and obesity 18 years old is escalating with 16 6 and 4 4 in 1996 29 1 and 14 0 in 2006 and 33 6 and 19 5 in 2008 1 3. Malaysia is recorded as the highest number of obese rates in the south east asia with prevalence of obesity was at 13 3 per cent while overweight was at 38 5 per cent farezza hanum rashid 2017.

In 2016 39 and 13 of the adult population worldwide was classified as overweight and obese respectively. According to the world population review 2019 malaysia has the highest prevalence of obesity among adults in southeast asia at 15 6 per cent followed by brunei 14 1 per cent thailand 10 0 per cent and indonesia 6 9 per cent. The prevalence in children below 18 years was not encouraging with 11 9 obese nhms. We conducted a cross sectional study at 12 selected health clinics in perak malaysia and we used multi stage cluster random sampling.