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Prevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural Senegal: new insight on the epidemiological transition in West Africa
BACKGROUND: The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of obesity in Dakar and in Tessekere, a rural municipality in northern Senegal, and to compare ideal body size between these populations. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was carried out in 2015 on a representative sample of 1 0...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5730727/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29083431 http://dx.doi.org/10.5830/CVJA-2017-034 |
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author | Macia, Enguerran Cohen, Emmanuel Boetsch, Gilles Boetsch, Lamine Cohen, Emmanuel Duboz, Priscilla |
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description | BACKGROUND: The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of obesity in Dakar and in Tessekere, a rural municipality in northern Senegal, and to compare ideal body size between these populations. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was carried out in 2015 on a representative sample of 1 000 adults, aged 20 years and older in Dakar, and 500 adults of the same age in Tessekere. RESULTS: The prevalence of obesity and overweight was higher in Dakar than in Tessekere. However, overweight and obesity rates of young women living in this rural area were close to those of young women in Dakar. At a body mass index of 27.5 kg/m², less than 40% of the men in Dakar and Tessekere found themselves too fat, compared to 50% of urban women and 30% of rural women. CONCLUSION: This study explains how and why obesity is becoming a rural health problem in Senegal. |
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spelling | pubmed-57307272017-12-28 Prevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural Senegal: new insight on the epidemiological transition in West Africa Macia, Enguerran Cohen, Emmanuel Boetsch, Gilles Boetsch, Lamine Cohen, Emmanuel Duboz, Priscilla Cardiovasc J Afr Cardiovascular Topics BACKGROUND: The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of obesity in Dakar and in Tessekere, a rural municipality in northern Senegal, and to compare ideal body size between these populations. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was carried out in 2015 on a representative sample of 1 000 adults, aged 20 years and older in Dakar, and 500 adults of the same age in Tessekere. RESULTS: The prevalence of obesity and overweight was higher in Dakar than in Tessekere. However, overweight and obesity rates of young women living in this rural area were close to those of young women in Dakar. At a body mass index of 27.5 kg/m², less than 40% of the men in Dakar and Tessekere found themselves too fat, compared to 50% of urban women and 30% of rural women. CONCLUSION: This study explains how and why obesity is becoming a rural health problem in Senegal. Clinics Cardive Publishing 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5730727/ /pubmed/29083431 http://dx.doi.org/10.5830/CVJA-2017-034 Text en Copyright © 2015 Clinics Cardive Publishing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Cardiovascular Topics Macia, Enguerran Cohen, Emmanuel Boetsch, Gilles Boetsch, Lamine Cohen, Emmanuel Duboz, Priscilla Prevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural Senegal: new insight on the epidemiological transition in West Africa |
title | Prevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural Senegal: new insight on the epidemiological transition in West Africa |
title_full | Prevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural Senegal: new insight on the epidemiological transition in West Africa |
title_fullStr | Prevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural Senegal: new insight on the epidemiological transition in West Africa |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural Senegal: new insight on the epidemiological transition in West Africa |
title_short | Prevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural Senegal: new insight on the epidemiological transition in West Africa |
title_sort | prevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural senegal: new insight on the epidemiological transition in west africa |
topic | Cardiovascular Topics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5730727/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29083431 http://dx.doi.org/10.5830/CVJA-2017-034 |
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