A comparative study on the elderly (over 60) and people with ages of 50-59 in some areas of the delta of northern Vietnam was carried out by interview, examination of the body weight, height, abdominal size, arm size, body mass index, hemoglobin as method of cross by with reagent of Drabkin. The results have shown that the body weight, height, breast size, abdominal size was gradually reduced. These were indirect proportional with the increased age and were the same between different ecological areas. The rate of thin people were high grade II, III while the rate of fat people were low. The rate f anemia in the people with BMI in the thin level was 23,4%, this rate in the people with the normal BMI was 13.2%. The fat people found not suffering the anemia.
Nutritional Status ; Aged

A cross-sectional study was conducted in 5 communes of Vu Thu district, Thai Binh province. Among 4,106 elderly people received physical examination, 3,444 were eligible for calculating BMI and overweight rate (BMI>22.9). 80% of the participants were randomly selected to measure blood lipid. Overweight rate was 4.7% and obesity rate was 1.5%, and both were highest at 60-74 age group, and more in men than women. Hypertension rate among people aged 75 or more was 2.55 times higher than that of the age group 60-71, and 2.05 times among the overweight/obesity elderly people higher than that of normal BMI people. Hypercholesterol rate among the overweight elderly people was higher than that of the normal BMI ones (P=0.05)
Overweight ; obesity ; Hypertension ; Lipids ; aged