Sivas İli 50 Yas Ve Üzeri Bireylerinde Obezite

Obesity is defined as excess body weight that may impair health. Obesity can be derived from genetic and/or non-genetic factors as nutritional conditions. Improvement of the nutrition conditions of persons is the most important step for the obesity prevention. At the present time, the increment of population ratio at 50 years and older individuals of our country and also worldwide is enhance to attempt of the improvement of the nutrition conditions. For this purpose, the sampling is performed from 152 females and 143 males at 50 age and over in Sivas by taking anthropometric measurements such as weight and length. To generate percentile values and assess whether the means of two groups are statistically different from each other, the recorded anthropometric dataset of the individuals are analysed using SPSS v14.00. These measurements are also used in the calculation of the body-mass index of the sampling individuals. The mean value of body mass index (kg/m2) is 33.87 in females and 28.81 in males among 50-64 years; while this value is 33.84 in females and 29.57 in males after 65 years. The obtained findings suggest that female overweight rates are higher than male rates across all age groups. The prevalence overweight rates among females can also increase the risk of diseases.