Obesity In Malaysia 2018 Statistics

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Obesity in malaysia 2018 statistics. Below national average. Addressing the global health challenge of obesity in malaysia. According to the world population review 2019 malaysia has the highest prevalence of obesity among adults in south east asia at 15 6 per cent followed by brunei 14 1 per cent thailand 10 0 per cent and indonesia 6 9 per cent. Malaysia national average.

Review of literature prevalence of obesity in the adult population there have been five large 10 000 respondents national population studies on the prevalence of obesity table i. 2 med j malaysia vol 71 supplement 1 june 2016 section 1. One of the consequences is that the prevalence of diabetes among adults aged 18 years and above has increased from 11 6 to 17 5 over a period of 9 years from 2006 to 2015. Academy of sciences malaysia.

Malaysia is recorded as the highest number of obese rates in the south east asia with prevalence of obesity was at 13 3 per cent while overweight was at 38 5 per cent farezza hanum rashid 2017. Malaysia has the highest rate of obesity and overweight among asian countries with 64 of male and 65 of female population being either obese or overweight. Based on the economist intelligence unit s tackling obesity in asean report released on june 1 malaysia s obesity prevalence is 13 3 while 38 5 of the population is overweight. Corporate news 9h ago dealing.

Malaysia is one of the most overweight countries in southeast asia. Tuesday 14 aug 2018 7 01 am myt related news. 11 18 original article burden of disease attributable to overweight and obesity in malaysia foo lee peng hanny zurina hamzah norashidah mohamed nor and rusmawati said. This in itself is a worrying trend but what is more disturbing is that these same adults are also parents to growing children or parents to be.

Looking at the statistics closely among the child bearing adults aged 30 35 years old 34 2 percent are overweight and another 30 5 percent are obese.