Obesity In Malaysia 2019

Malaysia is asia s fattest country with approximately half of the population overweight or obese. Obesity means having too much body fat. He added that obesity was also prevalent between the 20 and 24 years old 12 and 25 and 29 years old 18 3 age groups.

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Malaysia is ranked sixth in the asia pacific region for obesity and tops the list in south east asia for both obesity and diabetes.

Obesity in malaysia 2019. Dr lee said that 47 7 malaysians had high cholesterol with 22 being. 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. 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. The figures are grim in malaysia too.

Farhan not his real name was taken to a private hospital by his parents to seek treatment for an infection on his right leg. 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. 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. 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.

It is different from being overweight i e. One of the consequences is that the prevalence of diabetes among adults aged 18 years and above has increased from 11 6 to 17 5 over a period of 9 years from 2006 to 2015. According to the world population review 2019 malaysia has the highest prevalence of obesity among adults in south east asia at 15 6 per cent followed by brunei 14 1 per cent thailand 10 0 per cent and indonesia 6 9 per cent. 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.

514 med j malaysia vol 74 no 6 december 2019 in malaysia ncds were estimated to account for 74 of all deaths in 2016 2 the prevalence of obesity increased from 4 4 in 1996 to 12 3 in 2004 10 11 the national health and morbidity surveys nhmss carried out in 2006 2011 and 2015 showed further increase in the prevalence of overweight. Deputy health minister datuk seri dr hilmi yahaya recently said.