Prevalence of Central Obesity among Adults with Normal BMI and Its Association with Metabolic Diseases in Northeast China.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of central obesity among adults with normal BMI and its association with metabolic diseases in Jilin Province, China.

Methods

A population-based cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012 in Jilin Province of China. Information was collected by face to face interview. Descriptive data analysis and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of prevalence/frequency were conducted. Log-binomial regression analyses were used to find the independent factors associated with central obesity and to explore the adjusted association between central obesity and metabolic diseases among adults with normal BMI.

Results

Among the adult residents with normal BMI in Jilin Province, 55.6% of participants with central obesity self-as

SUBMITTER: Zhang P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4965061 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature