A Comparative Study of International and Asian Criteria for Overweight or Obesity at Workplaces in Singapore
| Autor: | Ushashree Divakar, Nuraini Nazeha, Michael Soljak, Ram Bajpai, Gerard Dunleavy, Josip Car, Thirunavukkarasu Sathish, George I. Christopoulos, Chee Kiong Soh, Nanthini Visvalingam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adult
Male Cross-sectional study Population 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Context (language use) Overweight Occupational safety and health Body Mass Index Cohort Studies Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Environmental health Prevalence medicine Humans Obesity 030212 general & internal medicine Workplace education Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures Occupational Health Singapore education.field_of_study business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Reproducibility of Results medicine.disease Cross-Sectional Studies Female medicine.symptom business Body mass index Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health. 33:404-410 |
| ISSN: | 1941-2479 1010-5395 |
| Popis: | To compare the prevalence of and risk factors associated with overweight or obesity between the international (body mass index [BMI] ≥25 kg/m2) and Asian (BMI ≥23 kg/m2) criteria in a working population in Singapore. This was a cross-sectional analysis of a cohort study of 464 employees (aged ≥21 years) conducted at 4 workplaces in Singapore. The prevalence of overweight or obesity was 47.4% and 67.0% with the international and Asian criteria, respectively. With both the criteria, higher age, male sex, Malay ethnicity (vs Chinese), lower white rice intake, and consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages were positively associated with overweight or obesity. Participants with poorer mental health and higher levels of thermal comfort in the workplace were positively associated with overweight or obesity only with the Asian criteria. The use of international criteria alone in this population could have overlooked these risk factors that are highly relevant to the Singapore context. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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