Obesity in adults people: a population based study in a small town in South of Brazil, 2005

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Sarturi, Juliana Barbosa
das Neves, Janaina
Peres, Karen Glazer
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2010
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Changes in nutritional pattern in Brazilian population have been observed mainly in relation to obesity increase. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of obesity and associated factors in adult population in Santo Angelo, Rio Grande do Sul State, 2005. A cross sectional study was carried out involving adult subjects from 20 to 59 years old (n=434), of both sexes. People with Body Mass Index equal to or higher than 30 kg/ m2 were considered obese. A questionnaire was applied to collect data related to socioeconomic, demographic, and behavioral conditions. The multiple logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the associated factors. The response rate was 95.0% and the prevalence of obesity was equal to 16.6% (CI95% 13.1-20.1). Presence of obesity was positively associated with lack of physical activity, none feeding habits care, and some individuals that mentioned current health problems regardless of sex. The prevalence of obesity found was similar to other Brazilian population based studies. The results may support planning and implementing prevention actions as well as obesity control in adult population taking into account the relevant details of a small size town.

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Ciência & Saúde Coletiva

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15

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1

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© The Author(s) 2010. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.

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Sarturi, JB; das Neves, J; Peres, KG, Obesity in adults people: a population based study in a small town in South of Brazil, 2005, Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2010, 15 (1), pp. 105-113

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