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Overweight and Obesity Coexist with Thinness among Lao's Urban Area Adolescents

INTRODUCTION: In recent decades, the developing countries of Southeast Asia, including the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), have experienced a rapid growth of their urban population. Partly as a result of that, issues of undernutrition and overnutrition became a significant public he...

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Autores principales: Ivanovitch, Katiya, Keolangsy, Sonemany, Homkham, Nontiya
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7444367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32864170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/5610834
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Homkham, Nontiya
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description INTRODUCTION: In recent decades, the developing countries of Southeast Asia, including the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), have experienced a rapid growth of their urban population. Partly as a result of that, issues of undernutrition and overnutrition became a significant public health problem. OBJECTIVE: To examine the prevalence of overweight and obesity and their related factors, among the school-attending adolescents in the Lao capital of Vientiane. METHODS: A cross-sectional data on 300 adolescents aged 15–19 were collected during the months of March, April, and May 2018 by means of a self-administrated questionnaire. Anthropometric measurements were used to obtain data on height and weight. Pearson's chi-squared test, Fisher exact tests, and univariable and multivariable logistic regressions were applied in the course of the statistical analysis. RESULTS: The study found a high prevalence of overweight/obesity (23.3%) and thinness (10.3%). Poor eating habits were noted in 67.0% of adolescents, even though 78.0% of them had a good knowledge of nutrition. Factors significantly associated with the overweight/obesity were low physical activities (aOR = 18.3; 95% CI: 5.51–60.66) and adolescents living with their guardians (aOR = 0.25; 95% CI: 0.08–0.79). Results also indicated that, in 47.3% of the cases, teachers, acting as a source of health and nutrition information, can prevent the risk of adolescents' overweight/obesity (aOR = 2.05, 95% CI = 1.11–3.80) but not their thinness (aOR = 0.4, 95% CI = 0.17–0.88). CONCLUSIONS: Laotian adolescents are facing the spectrum of malnutrition in urban areas. To improve adolescents' nutritional status, there is a need for a collaborative approach of public health agencies that would address the issues of an effective food and nutrition policy. The school curricula should also include programs on nutrition and physical education.
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spelling pubmed-74443672020-08-27 Overweight and Obesity Coexist with Thinness among Lao's Urban Area Adolescents Ivanovitch, Katiya Keolangsy, Sonemany Homkham, Nontiya J Obes Research Article INTRODUCTION: In recent decades, the developing countries of Southeast Asia, including the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), have experienced a rapid growth of their urban population. Partly as a result of that, issues of undernutrition and overnutrition became a significant public health problem. OBJECTIVE: To examine the prevalence of overweight and obesity and their related factors, among the school-attending adolescents in the Lao capital of Vientiane. METHODS: A cross-sectional data on 300 adolescents aged 15–19 were collected during the months of March, April, and May 2018 by means of a self-administrated questionnaire. Anthropometric measurements were used to obtain data on height and weight. Pearson's chi-squared test, Fisher exact tests, and univariable and multivariable logistic regressions were applied in the course of the statistical analysis. RESULTS: The study found a high prevalence of overweight/obesity (23.3%) and thinness (10.3%). Poor eating habits were noted in 67.0% of adolescents, even though 78.0% of them had a good knowledge of nutrition. Factors significantly associated with the overweight/obesity were low physical activities (aOR = 18.3; 95% CI: 5.51–60.66) and adolescents living with their guardians (aOR = 0.25; 95% CI: 0.08–0.79). Results also indicated that, in 47.3% of the cases, teachers, acting as a source of health and nutrition information, can prevent the risk of adolescents' overweight/obesity (aOR = 2.05, 95% CI = 1.11–3.80) but not their thinness (aOR = 0.4, 95% CI = 0.17–0.88). CONCLUSIONS: Laotian adolescents are facing the spectrum of malnutrition in urban areas. To improve adolescents' nutritional status, there is a need for a collaborative approach of public health agencies that would address the issues of an effective food and nutrition policy. The school curricula should also include programs on nutrition and physical education. Hindawi 2020-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7444367/ /pubmed/32864170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/5610834 Text en Copyright © 2020 Katiya Ivanovitch et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Overweight and Obesity Coexist with Thinness among Lao's Urban Area Adolescents
title Overweight and Obesity Coexist with Thinness among Lao's Urban Area Adolescents
title_full Overweight and Obesity Coexist with Thinness among Lao's Urban Area Adolescents
title_fullStr Overweight and Obesity Coexist with Thinness among Lao's Urban Area Adolescents
title_full_unstemmed Overweight and Obesity Coexist with Thinness among Lao's Urban Area Adolescents
title_short Overweight and Obesity Coexist with Thinness among Lao's Urban Area Adolescents
title_sort overweight and obesity coexist with thinness among lao's urban area adolescents
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7444367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32864170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/5610834
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