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Prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity in selected health areas in a rural health district in Cameroon: a cross-sectional analysis

BACKGROUND: Overweight and obesity are major public health problems worldwide, with projections suggesting a proportional increase in the number of affected individuals in developing countries by the year 2030. Evidence-based preventive strategies are needed to reduce the burden of overweight and ob...

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Autores principales: Simo, Larissa Pone, Agbor, Valirie Ndip, Temgoua, Francine Zeuga, Fozeu, Leo Cedric Fosso, Bonghaseh, Divine Tim, Mbonda, Aimé Gilbert Noula, Yurika, Raymond, Dotse-Gborgbortsi, Winfred, Mbanya, Dora
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7944596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33691650
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10403-w
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author Simo, Larissa Pone
Agbor, Valirie Ndip
Temgoua, Francine Zeuga
Fozeu, Leo Cedric Fosso
Bonghaseh, Divine Tim
Mbonda, Aimé Gilbert Noula
Yurika, Raymond
Dotse-Gborgbortsi, Winfred
Mbanya, Dora
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Agbor, Valirie Ndip
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Fozeu, Leo Cedric Fosso
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Mbonda, Aimé Gilbert Noula
Yurika, Raymond
Dotse-Gborgbortsi, Winfred
Mbanya, Dora
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description BACKGROUND: Overweight and obesity are major public health problems worldwide, with projections suggesting a proportional increase in the number of affected individuals in developing countries by the year 2030. Evidence-based preventive strategies are needed to reduce the burden of overweight and obesity in developing countries. We assessed the prevalence of, and factors associated with overweight and obesity in selected health areas in West Cameroon. METHODS: Data were collected from a community-based cross-sectional study, involving the consecutive recruitment of participants aged 18 years or older. Overweight and obesity were defined according to the WHO classification. The statistical software R (version 3.5.1, The R Foundation for statistical computing, Vienna, Austria) was used for statistical analysis. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to assess independent factors associated with overweight and obesity, and obesity. RESULTS: Records of 485 participants were included for analysis. The age and sex-standardized prevalence of overweight, obesity, and overweight and obesity were 31.1% (95% CI, 27.0–35.2), 18.9% (95% CI, 14.9–22.9), and 50.1% (95% CI, 45.7–54.6), respectively. In multivariable analysis, being female (adjusted OR [aOR] = 2.79, 95% CI = 1.69–4.63), married (aOR = 3.90, 95% CI = 2.23–6.95), and having secondary or tertiary education (aOR = 3.27, 95% CI = 1.77–6.17) were associated with higher odds of overweight and obesity, while current smokers had lower odds of overweight and obesity (aOR = 0.37, 95% CI = 0.16–0.82) when compared to their respective counterpart. Compared to their respective reference categories, being female being (aOR = 3.74, 95% CI = 2.01–7.30), married (aOR = 2.58, 95% CI = 1.37–5.05) and having secondary or tertiary education (aOR = 2.03, 95% CI = 1.00–4.23) were associated with higher odds of obesity after adjustments for confounding. CONCLUSION: We observed a high prevalence of overweight and obesity in this study. The odds of overweight and obesity was higher in females, married participants, and those with higher levels of education. Community-based interventions to control overweight and obesity should consider targeting these groups. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-10403-w.
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spelling pubmed-79445962021-03-10 Prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity in selected health areas in a rural health district in Cameroon: a cross-sectional analysis Simo, Larissa Pone Agbor, Valirie Ndip Temgoua, Francine Zeuga Fozeu, Leo Cedric Fosso Bonghaseh, Divine Tim Mbonda, Aimé Gilbert Noula Yurika, Raymond Dotse-Gborgbortsi, Winfred Mbanya, Dora BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Overweight and obesity are major public health problems worldwide, with projections suggesting a proportional increase in the number of affected individuals in developing countries by the year 2030. Evidence-based preventive strategies are needed to reduce the burden of overweight and obesity in developing countries. We assessed the prevalence of, and factors associated with overweight and obesity in selected health areas in West Cameroon. METHODS: Data were collected from a community-based cross-sectional study, involving the consecutive recruitment of participants aged 18 years or older. Overweight and obesity were defined according to the WHO classification. The statistical software R (version 3.5.1, The R Foundation for statistical computing, Vienna, Austria) was used for statistical analysis. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to assess independent factors associated with overweight and obesity, and obesity. RESULTS: Records of 485 participants were included for analysis. The age and sex-standardized prevalence of overweight, obesity, and overweight and obesity were 31.1% (95% CI, 27.0–35.2), 18.9% (95% CI, 14.9–22.9), and 50.1% (95% CI, 45.7–54.6), respectively. In multivariable analysis, being female (adjusted OR [aOR] = 2.79, 95% CI = 1.69–4.63), married (aOR = 3.90, 95% CI = 2.23–6.95), and having secondary or tertiary education (aOR = 3.27, 95% CI = 1.77–6.17) were associated with higher odds of overweight and obesity, while current smokers had lower odds of overweight and obesity (aOR = 0.37, 95% CI = 0.16–0.82) when compared to their respective counterpart. Compared to their respective reference categories, being female being (aOR = 3.74, 95% CI = 2.01–7.30), married (aOR = 2.58, 95% CI = 1.37–5.05) and having secondary or tertiary education (aOR = 2.03, 95% CI = 1.00–4.23) were associated with higher odds of obesity after adjustments for confounding. CONCLUSION: We observed a high prevalence of overweight and obesity in this study. The odds of overweight and obesity was higher in females, married participants, and those with higher levels of education. Community-based interventions to control overweight and obesity should consider targeting these groups. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-10403-w. BioMed Central 2021-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7944596/ /pubmed/33691650 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10403-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Simo, Larissa Pone
Agbor, Valirie Ndip
Temgoua, Francine Zeuga
Fozeu, Leo Cedric Fosso
Bonghaseh, Divine Tim
Mbonda, Aimé Gilbert Noula
Yurika, Raymond
Dotse-Gborgbortsi, Winfred
Mbanya, Dora
Prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity in selected health areas in a rural health district in Cameroon: a cross-sectional analysis
title Prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity in selected health areas in a rural health district in Cameroon: a cross-sectional analysis
title_full Prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity in selected health areas in a rural health district in Cameroon: a cross-sectional analysis
title_fullStr Prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity in selected health areas in a rural health district in Cameroon: a cross-sectional analysis
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity in selected health areas in a rural health district in Cameroon: a cross-sectional analysis
title_short Prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity in selected health areas in a rural health district in Cameroon: a cross-sectional analysis
title_sort prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity in selected health areas in a rural health district in cameroon: a cross-sectional analysis
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7944596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33691650
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10403-w
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