Obesity In Malaysia 2018

In the period of five years vietnam s obesity rate increased to 38 percent whereas indonesia and malaysia were at 33 percent and 27 percent respectively. The rise of obesity is not a problem unique to malaysia. Malaysian journal of public health medicine 2018 vol.

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Malaysia is ranked sixth in the asia pacific region for obesity and tops the list in south east asia for both obesity and diabetes.

Obesity in malaysia 2018. 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. The economic costs of obesity are considerable. The total direct and indirect costs of obesity of malaysia are the highest in asean accounting for 10 19 of national healthcare spending. In the global context alongside development and prosperity in many countries especially in asia obesity has become a leading health issue.

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. Trends in obesity and abdominal obesity among malaysian adults 2018. Based on a 2019 statistic from the world population review vietnam still has the lowest share of obese persons at 2 1 percent far below malaysia s 15 6 percent and brunei s 14 1 percent. The prevalence of obesity in malaysia over the last three decades since large scale population data became available.

Obesity rates among children in asia pacific are rising at a rapid rate. Serial population studies showed that the prevalence of obesity increased rapidly in malaysia in the last decade of the. This is equivalent to about 2 of the country s total gdp. Malaysia is one of the most overweight countries in southeast asia.

Deputy health minister datuk seri dr hilmi yahaya recently said. 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. A study conducted by the economist shows that the total cost of obesity in malaysia lies between us 4 7bil rm17 30bil.