Obesity

Data on obesity reported by researchers at Toyama University

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, January 11th, 2010

In this recent report, researchers in Toyama, Japan conducted a study "To investigate the effects of lifestyle factors on overweight among Japanese adolescents. We Studied 5753 junior high school students (2842 boys and 2911 girls) aged 12 to 13 years."

"The students were residents of Toyama prefecture, Japan and completed a questionnaire about their height, weight, and lifestyle factors, in June and July 2002. with a body-mass index (BMI) higher than age- and sex-specific cutoff points were defined as obese. Parental overweight was defined as a BMI of 25 or higher. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine associations between lifestyle factors and overweight....

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Source: Obesity and Diabetes Week (2010-01-11)

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