Nutrition status and morbidity condition of
employees admitted into DaiLai sanatorium
- Author:
Nguyen Tung Hai
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
elderly
- MeSH:
Nutritional Status;
Aged
- From:Journal of Preventive Medicine
2005;15(2):66-70
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
1095 persons in Dai Lai sanatorium were studied from 1997 to 1999. The result showed that: 7.31% patients were skinny, 16.71% thin, 21.18% rather thin, 8.31% overweight, 0.55% obesity (by WHO classification,1998). On average, each person has 1.8 diseases 91.86 for male and 1.43 for female). Four highest prevalences were cadiovascular disease (60.82%), digestive diseases (36.71%), respiratory disease (18.08%) and musculoskeletal diseases (14.80%).
In cardiovascular group, hypertension was highest (25.75%) and then to cerebrovascular disease (10.32%)
