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Anthropometric status according to composite index
Taking into account the composite index combining BMI and Waist to Height Ratio, only 36.1 % of participants (28.9 % of men and 42.7 % of women) had an optimal anthropometric situation. On the other hand, 50.1 % had both excess weight and high Waist to Height Ratio. The remainder of the population participating in this research (13.9 %) had intermediate situations, meaning high BMI and no abdominal obesity (level 2), or normal BMI and abdominal obesity with metabolic risk (level 3).
The results of the study also showed that this optimal situation (level 1) decreased with age. This way, 49.3 % of adults in the 18-40-year-old group participating in the ANIBES Study were in this level, figure that dropped to 21.0 % in the 41-64-year-old group.
In contrast, 36.3 % of those in the youngest group presented the most unfavorable situation (levels 4 and 5) versus 65.9 % of those in the oldest group, being prevalence higher among men.
It should also be noted that 5.6 % of participants (6.4 % of men and 4.8 % of women) were overweight or obese without abdominal adiposity (level 2). Those adults could have overweight but not yet have abdominal obesity. The sample participating in the ANIBES Study in level 2 was younger than that in levels 4 and 5.
With the participation of:
Spanish Nutrition and Food Spanish Nutrition Spanish Society of Sciences Academy Society Community Nutrition
Spanish Foundation fo Nutritional Research
(AEN) (SEÑ) (SENC) (FIN)
ANIBES scientific study >> Anthropometric data, macronutrients and micronutrients intake,
practice of physical activity, socioeconomic data and lifestyles of the population
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