Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Obesity has attracted extensive attention as a global chronic disease. Recently, Chinese adults have a tendency of obese, but the specific features and relative influencing factor remain poorly understood.
OBJECTIVE: To understand the Guangxi adult overweight and obesity and its impact risk factors, and to provide a theoretical basis for the scientific guidance of treating obesity and reducing the risk factors.
METHODS: 2005 National physical monitoring was performed on urban and rural adults aged 20 to 59, including a questionnaire survey and height, weight, waist circumference, hip circumference test. The overweight and obesity features of different age, type of work were analyzed, and the possible influencing factors were performed multi-factor non-conditional Logistic regression analysis.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: From the age point of view, the overweight rate of adults in Guangxi showed an increasing tendency with age increased. The overweight rate maintained a high level in 30-59-year-old males or 40-59-year-old females. But the obesity rate maintained within 6%, which mainly presented with abdominal obesity. From the type of work, the overweight and obesity rates of male farmers were lower than that of manual and non-manual workers. The overweight and obesity rates of female farmers were lower than that of manual and non-manual workers. Non-conditional Logistic regression analysis found that age, gender, type of work, average weekly frequency of physical exercise, and average total daily walking time were the influencing factors. The results demonstrated that, overweight and obesity rates were higher in middle aged Guangxi adults, belong to abdominal obesity. Generally, overweight and obesity rates were lower in male farmers. Intervention work should be performed on middle-aged population to adopt a positive lifestyle, to prevent the development of overweight to obesity, thereby reduce the incidence of overweight and obesity.