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Recent Shift of Body Mass Index Distribution in Korea: a Population-based Korea National Health Insurance Database, 2002-2013open access
- Authors
- Yoon, Yeong Sook; Oh, Sang Woo
- Issue Date
- Mar-2017
- Publisher
- KOREAN ACAD MEDICAL SCIENCES
- Keywords
- Obesity; Prevalence; Ethnicity; Weight Status
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE, v.32, no.3, pp 434 - 438
- Pages
- 5
- Indexed
- SCI
SCIE
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE
- Volume
- 32
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 434
- End Page
- 438
- ISSN
- 1011-8934
1598-6357
- Abstract
- We investigated trends of obesity prevalence among adult Koreans. Data from 110,280,952 participants who underwent medical examination provided by the National Health Insurance System from 2002-2013 were analyzed. The prevalence of moderate obesity (body mass index [BMI] 25.0-29.9 kg/m(2)) was slightly increased from 2002 (30.7%) through 2010 (33.1%) and reached a plateau since 2010 among men but continuously decreased from 22.5% in 2002 to 20.9% in 2013 among women. However, severe obesity (BMI >= 30.0 kg/m(2)) was rapidly increased and the prevalence in 2013 (4.2%) was almost doubled the prevalence in 2002 (2.5%). We observed a steep rise of severe obesity as well as potentially right shifting of the obese category.
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