Prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity in the Lausanne population 英文参考文献.docVIP

BMC Public Health BioMedCentral Research article Open Access Prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity in the Lausanne population Pedro Marques-Vidal*1,2, Murielle Bochud2, Vincent Mooser3, Fred Paccaud2, Gérard Waeber4 and Peter Vollenweider4 Address: 1Cardiomet, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), University of Lausanne, Switzerland , 3Genetics Division, GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and 4Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland Email: Pedro Marques-Vidal* - pedro-manuel.marques-vidal@chuv.ch; Murielle Bochud - Murielle.Bochud@chuv.ch; Vincent Mooser - Vincent.2.Mooser@; Fred Paccaud - Fred.Paccaud@chuv.ch; Gérard Waeber - Gerard.Waeber@chuv.ch; Peter Vollenweider - Peter.Vollenweider@chuv.ch * Corresponding author Published: 24 September 2008 Received: 18 April 2008 Accepted: 24 September 2008 BMC Public Health 2008, 8:330 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-330 This article is available from: /1471-2458/8/330 ? 2008 Marques-Vidal et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Obesity can be defined using body mass index (BMI) or waist (abdominal obesity). Little information exists regarding its prevalence and determinants in Switzerland. Hence, we assessed the levels of obesity as defined by BMI or waist circumference in a Swiss population-based sample. Methods: Cross-sectional, population-based non-stratified random sample of 3,249 women and 2,937 men aged 35–75 years living in Lausanne, Switzerland. Overall participation rate was 41%. Results: In men, the prevalences of overweight (BMI ≥25 kg/m2) and obesity (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) were 45.5% and 16.9%, respectively, higher than in women