Obesity Statistics In Malaysia 2018

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Obesity statistics in malaysia 2018. Some recent who global estimates follow. Facts about overweight and obesity. Tuesday 14 aug 2018 7 01 am myt. Obesity is greater than 2 standard deviations above the who growth reference median.

Recently malaysia s health minister subramaniam sathasivam warned that the country is facing an obesity epidemic and just over half of the population is either overweight or obese. The total direct and indirect costs of obesity of malaysia are the highest in asean accounting for 10 19 of national healthcare spending. By leading states 2018 percentage of obese u s. Adult obesity rates are highest in the us mexico new zealand and hungary and lowest in japan and south korea according to a report on member states by the paris based organisation for economic.

Adults by state 2018. Malaysia has the highest rate of obesity and overweight among asian countries with 64 of male and 65 of female population being either obese or overweight. Primary health care is the smartest first step towards universal health coverage also known as health for all for everyone and everywhere. Read cdc nchs data brief obesity related conditions include heart disease stroke type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer that are some of the leading causes of preventable premature death.

In 2016 more than 1 9 billion adults aged 18 years and older were overweight. B by comparison 20 years ago only 4 of malaysians were considered obese. From 1999 2000 through 2017 2018 the prevalence of obesity increased from 30 5 to 42 4 and the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 4 7 to 9 2. States with adult obesity rates at or above 30 percent from 2011 to 2018 overweight and obesity in the u s.

Department of statistics official portal portal rasmi jabatan perangkaan malaysia. Deputy health minister datuk seri dr hilmi yahaya recently said that there were about three million obese malaysians and the number was increasing while there were about five million individuals.