Department of Public Health, Health Care and Hygiene Management, Bukhara State Medical Institute, Uzbekistan
Online published on 10 December, 2019.
In recent decades, there has been a noticeable revival in the interest of doctors of various specialties in the problem of obesity. This is primarily due to an increase in the frequency of obesity, both among men and women, and among children and adolescents. This is a pre-nosological form of obesity, which indicates the maladaptation of the body and its transition to nosology (obesity) will depend on the degree of manifestation of various risk factors. The most informative indicator of the degree of obesity at present is the body mass index, which normally corresponds to 18.5–24.9 kg/m2. Despite the fact that some studies have noted a more frequent spread of overweight and obesity among people with mental labor than physical, in Bukhara the dependence of the frequency of obesity on the severity of labor has not been established. Over the past 10 years, the number of obese people has doubled. The increasing prevalence of obesity has caused an increase in the number of patients with cardiovascular disease. Medical records of 100 patients with a diagnosis of obesity who were hospitalized in the Bukhara regional multidisciplinary center were used. We also conducted a survey of overweight population, which are registered in the outpatient clinics of the city.
Urbanization, Obesity, Lifestyle, Diabetes, Healthy Eating, Overweight