Obesity prevalence and average BMI significantly increased over a 6-year period among adults in a rural Thai community, highlighting the need for targeted public health interventions.
May warrant rural obesity surveillance; hypothesis-generating for longitudinal studies on drivers and interventions.
Our data emphasized that obesity constituted a serious problem among adults residing in a rural community. A trend in significant increase was found regarding the prevalence of obesity and average BMI in the rural community over 6 years. Effective public health interventions should be provided at the community level to reduce BMI. Moreover, modifiable risk factors for obesity should be attenuated to inhibit the progression of metabolic syndrome, noncommunicable diseases and their complications.
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