Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Evidence from epidemiological studies showed positive association between obesity and CVDs-associated risk factors, such as diabetes, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. However, these were reported mainly in the prevalent cases and little data is available for Malaysian population, the South East Asia country with the highest prevalence of adult obesity. Hence, we investigated the relationship between obesity and risk of undiagnosed diabetes, undiagnosed hypertension and undiagnosed hypercholesterolemia among the Malaysian adults.
METHODOLOGY: This study analysed the data from 12,871 Malaysian adults without chronic diseases (6,324 male and 6,547 female), who aged above 18 years who participated in the NHMS 2015, a national population-based survey. Data were analyse using multiple logistic regression to determine the relationship between obesity and undiagnosed diabetes, undiagnosed hypertension and undiagnosed hypercholesterolemia, after adjusted for sociodemographic characteristics and lifestyle risk factors.
RESULTS: Our data demonstrated that the prevalence of obesity among the undiagnosed diabetes, undiagnosed hypertension and undiagnosed hypercholesterolemia were 5.8%, 12.9% and 37.2%, respectively. We observed a positive association between obesity and risk of undiagnosed hypertension (adjusted OR: 2.73, 95% CI: 2.19 - 3.41, p<0.001) and undiagnosed hypercholesterolemia (adjusted OR: 1.38, 95% CI: 1.23 - 1.56, p<0.001). We did not observe any association between obesity and risk of undiagnosed diabetes. CONCLUSION: Obesity was positively associated with risk of undiagnosed hypertension and undiagnosed hypercholesterolemia among the Malaysian adults. These findings suggest the need of educating the public about healthier lifestyle that not only will curb this growing number of obesities among Malaysian adults, but also aid in the prevention of hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia.
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@proceedings{APCPH2022-P-75,
title = {Obesity associated with increased risk of hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia: findings from National Health and Morbidity Survey 2015},
author = {Zuraida Che Hassan and Tan Lay Kim and Kee Chee Chong and Nik Noor Syamimi Ismail and Mohd Azahadi Omar},
url = {https://apcph.cphm.my/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/APCPH2022-P-75.pdf
https://apcph.cphm.my/wp-content/uploads/wpforms/1176-1e04940bb5d885bf8711ed19095a89ed/Obesity-associated-with-increased-risk-of-hypertension-and-hyper-978983fdaa971290c82ab3d0ae63e8b5.pdf},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-08-02},
urldate = {2022-08-02},
issue = {7},
abstract = {INTRODUCTION: Evidence from epidemiological studies showed positive association between obesity and CVDs-associated risk factors, such as diabetes, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. However, these were reported mainly in the prevalent cases and little data is available for Malaysian population, the South East Asia country with the highest prevalence of adult obesity. Hence, we investigated the relationship between obesity and risk of undiagnosed diabetes, undiagnosed hypertension and undiagnosed hypercholesterolemia among the Malaysian adults.
METHODOLOGY: This study analysed the data from 12,871 Malaysian adults without chronic diseases (6,324 male and 6,547 female), who aged above 18 years who participated in the NHMS 2015, a national population-based survey. Data were analyse using multiple logistic regression to determine the relationship between obesity and undiagnosed diabetes, undiagnosed hypertension and undiagnosed hypercholesterolemia, after adjusted for sociodemographic characteristics and lifestyle risk factors.
RESULTS: Our data demonstrated that the prevalence of obesity among the undiagnosed diabetes, undiagnosed hypertension and undiagnosed hypercholesterolemia were 5.8%, 12.9% and 37.2%, respectively. We observed a positive association between obesity and risk of undiagnosed hypertension (adjusted OR: 2.73, 95% CI: 2.19 - 3.41, p\<0.001) and undiagnosed hypercholesterolemia (adjusted OR: 1.38, 95% CI: 1.23 - 1.56, p\<0.001). We did not observe any association between obesity and risk of undiagnosed diabetes. CONCLUSION: Obesity was positively associated with risk of undiagnosed hypertension and undiagnosed hypercholesterolemia among the Malaysian adults. These findings suggest the need of educating the public about healthier lifestyle that not only will curb this growing number of obesities among Malaysian adults, but also aid in the prevention of hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia.},
howpublished = {published online at https://apcph.cphm.my},
note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation: Sector for Biostatistics \& Data Repository},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}