Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: Obesity prevalence increase fastly and become important health problem all around the world. Aim of our study to determine obesity and abdominal obesity prevalence in west black sea region and to display the prevalence of chronic diseases especially diabetes mellitus (DM) in obese population.

Material and method: We evaluate 2222 (1418 female, 804 male, mean age 50) participant in Yigilca region. We took medical history and physical examination of all participant. Body mass indexes (BMI) was described as follows: BMI <18.5 as low body weight; 18.5–24.9 as normal body weight, 25–29.9 as overweight, ≥30 as obese and ≥40 as morbidly obese. According to waist measurement, >94 cm in male and >90 cm in female accepted as abdominal obesity. Fasting blood glucose (FBG), electrolytes (Na, K), and lipid parameters were recorded.

Results: Mean BMI of participants were 30.6 in females and 27.5 in males. According to BMI obesity prevalence was 53.1% in female and 26.9% in male and mean obesity prevalence was 43.5% in generally. Abdominal obesity prevalence was 63% in female, 46% in male and generally was 57% in all participant. Obesity prevalences were increasing with age in both sex. Especially 3/4 (75%) of female and 1/3 (33%) of male were obese between 50 and 59 ages. Postmenopausal female had very high (64%) obesity prevalence but 43% in premenaposes. Coronary artery diseases, hypertension and especially DM were very high in obese population. While DM prevalence was 12.6% according to history, crude DM prevalence was increased 18.8% adding patients with FBG ≥126 mg/dl.

Conclusion: Obesity especially abdominal obesity and also DM prevalence were determined increased at exaggerated ratio in all section and ages of population especially postmenopausal females.

Declaration of interest: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest that could be perceived as prejudicing the impartiality of the research project.

Funding: This research did not receive any specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sector.