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The Quantitative Analysis Of Life-styles Of Overweight And Obese Adults In Shenyang

Posted on:2008-04-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L J ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2144360215981307Subject:Nursing
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At present, with the development of social economy and the changes of human' s life-styles and dietary habit ,Overweight and obesity have become the international health problem. Obesity not only affect body' beauty, result in psychological pressure, but also initiate various kinds of disease and cause to economic burden. Some researches prove that obesity is the main motivation that cause to various kinds of chronic disease. In the 21th century , obesity is the important global public health problem that influences life health and increase financial burden. With regard to the cause of obesity, currently, large of studies are carried out from the aspect of environmental science, behavioral science, and genetics and so on. Some researches confirm that obesity is the result of coaction of genetic and environmental factors ( including life-styles). Modern life-styles, especially the changed person' s dietary pattern , more and more hyper fat, hyper quantity of heat food intake, bad dietary habit, prolonged sitting without activity, lack of physical activity and physical exercise, drinking alcohol, and irregularities of living are likely the principal factors that lead to overweight and obesity. Therefore, to explore the relationship between life-styles and overweight and obesity of adults in Shenyang has actual significance.objective1,To discuss the life-styles characteristics of adults who are overweight or obese in Shenyang, and explore the relationship between life-styles and body weight index and laboratory docimastic results. 2,With the quantitative analysis of life-styles ,we can carry out quantitative systematical evaluation for the overweight and obese people , diagnose the behavioral of obesity. Provide scientific evidence for intervening the overweight and obese people's life-styles effectively and reasonably.Methods1111 adults aged from 18 to 65 in Shenyang were examed for blood pressure, height , weight , waist circumference and hip circumference in the fourth affiliated hospital of China Medical University since April 2006 to July 2006 when they came for health examination , also some of their laboratory docimastic results such as blood sugar, blood fat, ultrasonic inspection of liver and gall were recorded. At the same time they were asked to answer the life-style questionnaire . The objects of the survey were divided into three teams, overweight, obese and contrast team. Their answers were given different scores. Compare the scores and the body weight index in order to find out the risk factors of life-style which led to overweight and obesity.Results1,According to the Asian standard of Body Mass Index, 19.3% of them are overweight, 33.4% of them are obesity, both of overweight and obesity exceeded 50%.2,The systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, the levels of triglyceride and high density lipoptein cholesterol of overweight and obese teams were significantly higher than that of contrast team(p<0.05). The overweight and obese teams have higher likelihood of suffering from the disease, such as fatty liver, high blood pressure , type II diabetes and hyperlipemia.3,The results also shows that overweight and obesity are related to excessive intake of food. The scores of overweight and obese teams' in eating habit, mode of exercise and cognitive ability were significantly lower than that of the contrast team(p<0.01).Conclusions1,The phenomenon of overweight and obese in adult are serious in Shenyang.2,The diastalic blood pressure and blood-fat level of the team with abdominal obesity is higher than that of the team with normal waist circumference.3,The detection rate of fatty liver, high blood pressure , diabetes and hyperlipemia of overweight and obese team is higher than that of the contrast team.4,There are intimate relationship between overweight, obesity and life-styles of adults in Shenyang. Some bad dietary habit,lack of exercise,and lack of cognition of obesity are risk factors which lead to overweight and obesity.5,After quantification of the life-styles of overweight,obese and contrast team,we can draw a conclusion that the higher the BMI is ,the lower it's healthy lifestyle score. It has great significance to establish quantifying appraisal system for the overweight and obese intervention.
Keywords/Search Tags:adult, overweight, obesity, life-style, quantification
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