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Sociodemographic factors associated with waist circumference among male and female adults: findings of the Malaysian adult nutrition survey 2014

Introduction: This study examined how waist circumference (WC) varied across sociodemographic characteristics of Malaysian adults using a nationally representative data. Methods: Data from the Malaysian Adult Nutrition Survey 2014 (n = 2696) was used. In the sample, 46.55% were males and 53.45% were...

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Main Authors: Yong, Kang Cheah, Omar, Mohd Azahadi, Mohamad Nor, Noor Safiza, Siew, Nooi Phang, Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah
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spelling my.iium.irep.883112021-03-14T04:20:12Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/88311/ Sociodemographic factors associated with waist circumference among male and female adults: findings of the Malaysian adult nutrition survey 2014 Yong, Kang Cheah Omar, Mohd Azahadi Mohamad Nor, Noor Safiza Siew, Nooi Phang Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah HM Sociology Introduction: This study examined how waist circumference (WC) varied across sociodemographic characteristics of Malaysian adults using a nationally representative data. Methods: Data from the Malaysian Adult Nutrition Survey 2014 (n = 2696) was used. In the sample, 46.55% were males and 53.45% were females. The outcome variable was WC. Waist circumference was categorised into four ordinal outcomes: Very low, low, high and very high. The explanatory variables were age, monthly individual income, education, gender, marital status, ethnicity, employment status and household location. Ordered probit models were utilised. Results: The majority of males had a low WC (54.66%), and only a small proportion had a very high WC (0.96%). Similarly, a high proportion of females had a low WC (55.59%), and only 1.94% had a very high WC. Younger males were more likely to have a high WC than their older counterparts. Males who had monthly income of RM2000-2999 or RM3000-3999 were more likely to have a high WC compared with those who had monthly income of ≤RM999. Chinese and Indian males were more likely to have a high WC than Bumiputera males. For females, those who were married, widowed/divorced and Bumiputera were likely to have a high WC. Conclusion: WC was associated with various sociodemographic profiles of males and females. In particular, there were positive associations between the likelihoods of having a high WC and younger age group, higher income, Chinese, Indian, and being married. Our findings provided policy makers with better information on formulating intervention measures Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2020-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/88311/1/88311_Sociodemographic%20factors%20associated%20with%20waist.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/88311/2/88311_Sociodemographic%20factors%20associated%20with%20waist_SCOPUS.pdf Yong, Kang Cheah and Omar, Mohd Azahadi and Mohamad Nor, Noor Safiza and Siew, Nooi Phang and Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah (2020) Sociodemographic factors associated with waist circumference among male and female adults: findings of the Malaysian adult nutrition survey 2014. Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences, 16 (3). pp. 207-215. ISSN 1675-8544 https://medic.upm.edu.my/upload/dokumen/2020090813175131_MJMHS_0193.pdf
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English
topic HM Sociology
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Yong, Kang Cheah
Omar, Mohd Azahadi
Mohamad Nor, Noor Safiza
Siew, Nooi Phang
Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah
Sociodemographic factors associated with waist circumference among male and female adults: findings of the Malaysian adult nutrition survey 2014
description Introduction: This study examined how waist circumference (WC) varied across sociodemographic characteristics of Malaysian adults using a nationally representative data. Methods: Data from the Malaysian Adult Nutrition Survey 2014 (n = 2696) was used. In the sample, 46.55% were males and 53.45% were females. The outcome variable was WC. Waist circumference was categorised into four ordinal outcomes: Very low, low, high and very high. The explanatory variables were age, monthly individual income, education, gender, marital status, ethnicity, employment status and household location. Ordered probit models were utilised. Results: The majority of males had a low WC (54.66%), and only a small proportion had a very high WC (0.96%). Similarly, a high proportion of females had a low WC (55.59%), and only 1.94% had a very high WC. Younger males were more likely to have a high WC than their older counterparts. Males who had monthly income of RM2000-2999 or RM3000-3999 were more likely to have a high WC compared with those who had monthly income of ≤RM999. Chinese and Indian males were more likely to have a high WC than Bumiputera males. For females, those who were married, widowed/divorced and Bumiputera were likely to have a high WC. Conclusion: WC was associated with various sociodemographic profiles of males and females. In particular, there were positive associations between the likelihoods of having a high WC and younger age group, higher income, Chinese, Indian, and being married. Our findings provided policy makers with better information on formulating intervention measures
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author Yong, Kang Cheah
Omar, Mohd Azahadi
Mohamad Nor, Noor Safiza
Siew, Nooi Phang
Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah
author_facet Yong, Kang Cheah
Omar, Mohd Azahadi
Mohamad Nor, Noor Safiza
Siew, Nooi Phang
Abd. Manaf, Noor Hazilah
author_sort Yong, Kang Cheah
title Sociodemographic factors associated with waist circumference among male and female adults: findings of the Malaysian adult nutrition survey 2014
title_short Sociodemographic factors associated with waist circumference among male and female adults: findings of the Malaysian adult nutrition survey 2014
title_full Sociodemographic factors associated with waist circumference among male and female adults: findings of the Malaysian adult nutrition survey 2014
title_fullStr Sociodemographic factors associated with waist circumference among male and female adults: findings of the Malaysian adult nutrition survey 2014
title_full_unstemmed Sociodemographic factors associated with waist circumference among male and female adults: findings of the Malaysian adult nutrition survey 2014
title_sort sociodemographic factors associated with waist circumference among male and female adults: findings of the malaysian adult nutrition survey 2014
publisher Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
publishDate 2020
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