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KMID : 0371019970300040708
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Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
1997 Volume.30 No. 4 p.708 ~ p.718
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A study on obesity pattern and related factors of the doctors
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Kim Young-Sil
Hwang In-Kyung
Cho Byung-Mann
Lee Su-Il
Kim Don-Kyoun
Park Hae-Sook
Cho Bong-Su
Kim Yeung-Wook
Koh Kwang-Wook
Kang Su-Yong
Cha Ae-Ri
Lee Cheol-Ho
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Abstract
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The author surveyed overall obesity indicies and factors concerned with obesity such as dietary intake, physical activity, stress and life style with the subject of doctors. The number of subjects was total 508 with 396 men and 112 women. They were subgrouped into surgical part, medical part and service and basic part by speciality. And also subgrouped into intern and resident, pay doctor, and practitioner by working type. The results were as follows.
1) Obesity indices: BMI of total doctor was 23.12.8, and WIJR was 0.870.08 and overweight prevalence(BMI)25.0) was 23.6%. It was within normal limit but slightly over the Korean standard. The degree of obesity indices of subgroups by speciality was "surgical part ) medical part ) service and basic part", and by working type was "practitioner ) pay doctor ) intern and resident".
2) Dietary intake and Physical activity: Average dietary intake was 2148451 kcal/day. The degree of dietary intake by speciality was "surgical part ) medical part ) service and basic part". By working type it was "practitioner ) pay doctor ) in-tern and resident". Average physical activity was 295 METs/day. The degree of physical activity also showed similiar pattern. But there was no significant difference among each groups.
3) Comparision between over-weight and non-over-weight´ group: The items that showed significant difference between two groups were dietar~r~ntake, skip breakfast, regular exercise, smoking, heavy drinking, chronic disease etc.
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KEYWORD
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doctor, obesity, dietary intake, physical activity, life style
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