Obesity Statistics In Malaysia 2018

Malaysian journal of public health medicine 2018 vol.

Obesity statistics in malaysia 2018. A recent study estimates that worldwide gdp losses both from direct and indirect costs of diabetes from 2011 to 2030 will total us 1 7tril comprising us 900bil for high income countries and us 800bil for low and middle. In 2016 female obesity prevalence for malaysia was 17 9. Tuesday 14 aug 2018 7 01 am myt. The description is composed by our digital data assistant.

Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. Serial population studies showed that the prevalence of obesity increased rapidly in malaysia in the last decade of the. In the period of five years vietnam s obesity rate increased to 38 percent whereas indonesia and malaysia were at 33 percent and 27 percent respectively. A crude population measure of obesity is the body mass index bmi a person s weight in.

11 18 original article burden of disease attributable to overweight and obesity in malaysia foo lee peng hanny zurina hamzah norashidah mohamed nor and rusmawati said. As shown in figure 4 malaysia s total cost for obesity as a percentage of nominal gdp ranks top at a range between 0 4 and 0 8 far ahead of all other countries in asean. The total direct and indirect costs of obesity of malaysia are the highest in asean accounting for 10 19 of national healthcare spending. In 2016 male obesity prevalence for malaysia was 13.

Obesity rates among children in asia pacific are rising at a rapid rate. Deputy health minister datuk seri dr hilmi yahaya recently said. Based on a 2019 statistic from the world population review vietnam still has the lowest share of obese persons at 2 1 percent far below malaysia s 15 6 percent and brunei s 14 1 percent. Trends in obesity and abdominal obesity among malaysian adults 2018.

Malaysia is recorded as the highest number of obese rates in the south east asia with prevalence of obesity was at 13 3 per cent while overweight was at 38 5 per cent farezza hanum rashid 2017. Between 1997 and 2016 male obesity prevalence of malaysia grew substantially from 3 8 to 13 rising at an increasing annual rate that reached a maximum of 9 09 in 2000 and then decreased to 5 69 in 2016.