Overweight and obesity among school-aged adolescents in Yaounde (Cameroon)
Introduction Overweight and obesity are a major public health problem due to its association with serious chronic diseases. Concerning childhood overweight/obesity, its rise in developing countries is so that there is a need to provide more evidence on its burden and associated factors in order to...
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Overweight and obesity are a major public health problem due to its association with serious chronic diseases. Concerning childhood overweight/obesity, its rise in developing countries is so that there is a need to provide more evidence on its burden and associated factors in order to set preventive measures.
Methods
This study was designed to know the prevalence and related factors of overweight and obesity amongst adolescents in Yaoundé- Cameroon, and to draw their epidemiological profile.
Results
The prevalence of overweight and obesity was 13.6% and 4.3% respectively. Results revealed that practices associated with overweight and obesity are increase in age (R = 0.42, p < 0.001), female gender (p < 0.001). In addition, the use of bikes, cars or buses to go to school compared to walking (OR: 0.26; CI: 0.14 – 0.64; p = 0.0026) increase the risk of being overweight or obese. After adjusting the multivariable logistic model for age and sex with our study variables, it reveals that the odds of being obese for those who consume alcohol once a week were nine fold higher than that of those who consumed 2-5 times a week (OR: 9.37; CI: 1.34 to 193.41).
Conclusions
This results show that there is a need for health education in schools so as to help in health promotion and prevention, therefore avoid chronic disease conditions at older ages. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:127162019-03-26T21:57:33Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12716/ Overweight and obesity among school-aged adolescents in Yaounde (Cameroon) Leslie B, Simomia Mbowen HB, Nguendo Yongsi Introduction Overweight and obesity are a major public health problem due to its association with serious chronic diseases. Concerning childhood overweight/obesity, its rise in developing countries is so that there is a need to provide more evidence on its burden and associated factors in order to set preventive measures. Methods This study was designed to know the prevalence and related factors of overweight and obesity amongst adolescents in Yaoundé- Cameroon, and to draw their epidemiological profile. Results The prevalence of overweight and obesity was 13.6% and 4.3% respectively. Results revealed that practices associated with overweight and obesity are increase in age (R = 0.42, p < 0.001), female gender (p < 0.001). In addition, the use of bikes, cars or buses to go to school compared to walking (OR: 0.26; CI: 0.14 – 0.64; p = 0.0026) increase the risk of being overweight or obese. After adjusting the multivariable logistic model for age and sex with our study variables, it reveals that the odds of being obese for those who consume alcohol once a week were nine fold higher than that of those who consumed 2-5 times a week (OR: 9.37; CI: 1.34 to 193.41). Conclusions This results show that there is a need for health education in schools so as to help in health promotion and prevention, therefore avoid chronic disease conditions at older ages. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12716/1/224-1179-1-PB.pdf Leslie B, Simomia Mbowen and HB, Nguendo Yongsi (2019) Overweight and obesity among school-aged adolescents in Yaounde (Cameroon). International Journal of Public Health Research, 9 (1). pp. 1059-1072. ISSN 2232-0245 http://spaj.ukm.my/ijphr/index.php/ijphr/issue/view/24 |
| spellingShingle | Leslie B, Simomia Mbowen HB, Nguendo Yongsi Overweight and obesity among school-aged adolescents in Yaounde (Cameroon) |
| title | Overweight and obesity among school-aged adolescents in Yaounde (Cameroon) |
| title_full | Overweight and obesity among school-aged adolescents in Yaounde (Cameroon) |
| title_fullStr | Overweight and obesity among school-aged adolescents in Yaounde (Cameroon) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Overweight and obesity among school-aged adolescents in Yaounde (Cameroon) |
| title_short | Overweight and obesity among school-aged adolescents in Yaounde (Cameroon) |
| title_sort | overweight and obesity among school-aged adolescents in yaounde (cameroon) |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12716/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12716/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12716/1/224-1179-1-PB.pdf |