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Volume 3, Issue 3 (Suppl)
J Obes Eat Disord
ISSN: 2471-8203
Obesity Medicine 2017
October 30-31, 2017
October 30-31, 2017 Bangkok, Thailand
15
th
International Conference on
Obesity Medicine
Exploring health obesity in Fiji
Adi Miriama Drauna
University of Tokyo, Japan
D
iabetes and obesity are major public health problems in the Fiji Islands. Till now, policies, projects and research have
rightfully targeted the areas of nutrition and physical inactivity to decrease obesity and then to control diabetes. Among
such obese persons, metabolically healthy obese individuals do not present the complications commonly associated with
obesity. In high and upper-middle income countries, its prevalence ranges from 2-51% among obese populations, but little is
known about its prevalence and its sociodemographic factors in Fiji. This study aims to examine its demographic and adiposity
predictors. Utilizing data from the NCD Risk Factor STEPS survey 2011 (n=2,688) that was conducted by the Ministry of
Health in Fiji, a complex survey data analysis was done. In this study, metabolically healthy obese individual was defined as
an obese individual who meets only one out of the four characteristics of metabolic syndrome recorded (waist circumference,
fasting blood glucose, diastolic and systolic blood pressure). As a result, raised fasting blood glucose and obesity prevalence
were found to be 28.8% and 30.7%. However, 61.7% of the obese group did not present raised fasting blood glucose. Prevalence
of metabolically healthy obesity was 23.5% among the obese population and 7.2% overall. Waist circumference was the
strongest independent predictor (OR 0.92 95% CI 0.89 – 0.94; P=<0.001). One in four obese adults is metabolically healthy
and they are at a lower risk of diabetes. Identifying such healthy adults can help improve the tailor-made interventions to obese
adults in Fiji.
Biography
Drauna is currently a first year PhD student of International Health at the Universiy of Tokyo. She completed her Masters in Public Health at the University of
Tsukuba in Japan. Her Masters thesis investigated the trends of sociodemographic risk factors of diabetes in Fiji. Her Bachelors degree in Public Health was
completed in Fiji in 2012; her thesis was on the unhealthy food advertisements on the radio which contributed to a larger study on mass media and junk food in Fiji.
m_dee6474@hotmail.comAdi Miriama Drauna, J Obes Eat Disord 2017, 3:3
DOI: 10.21767/2471-8203-C1-005