THE INVESTIGATION ON BODY WEIGHT,HEIGHT,WEIGHT INDEX AND OBESITY INCIDENCE OF CHINESE PEOPLE IN FUSAN DISTRICT / 营养学报

ABSTRACT

Body weight, height, weight index as well as obesity incidence of 4780 people (male 3216, female 1564) aged from 20 to 78 including various kinds of job were investigated in Fusan district in Shandong province. The body weight and height were measured by conventional method. The weight indexwas estimated in terms of the value of weight(kg)/height(cm)2 ? 100. The correlationregression between sex, age, height and weight was calculated as well.The result showed that the average weight index ranging from 0.1933 to 0.2525 in males and 0.1951 to 0-2563 in famales was noticed. Accordingly, the incidence of overweight and obesity was 7.71% and 8.33% in males and 6.96% and 4.73% in females respectively. The correlation coefficients between weight and age (r = 0.9838 within 20-35 in age in males, r = 0.9846 within 20-50 in age in famales), and between weight and height (r = 0.9798 within 144-180cm in males, r = 0.8595 within 140-170cm in females) were highly significant.The data mentioned above were also discussed briefly.