Recent Shift of Body Mass Index Distribution in Korea: a Population-based Korea National Health Insurance Database, 2002-2013.
We investigated trends of obesity prevalence among adult Koreans. Data from 110,280,952 participants who underwent medical examination provided by the National Health Insurance System from 2002-2013 were analyzed. The prevalence of moderate obesity (body mass index [BMI] 25.0-29.9 kg/m²) was slightly increased from 2002 (30.7%) through 2010 (33.1%) and reached a plateau since 2010 among men but continuously decreased from 22.5% in 2002 to 20.9% in 2013 among women. However, severe obesity (BMI ≥ 30.0 kg/m²) was rapidly increased and the prevalence in 2013 (4.2%) was almost doubled the prevalence in 2002 (2.5%). We observed a steep rise of severe obesity as well as potentially right shifting of the obese category.
Department of Family Medicine, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Korea.
Yeong Sook
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9249-2940
YS
Yoon
Department of Family Medicine, Center for Obesity, Metabolism, and Nutrition, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Korea. osw6021@yahoo.co.kr.
Sang Woo
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5623-6720
SW
Oh
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015992:Body Mass Index; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D056910:Republic of Korea / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult
Ethnicity; Obesity; Prevalence; Weight Status