Abstract
This study aimed to analyze overweight trend and obesity in adults from Rio Branco, Acre, Western Brazilian Amazon, from 2006 to 2020. This is a time series study, with data from Surveillance System for Risk and Protective Factors for Chronic Diseases by Telephone Survey (VIGITEL). To estimate annual percentage change (APC) and 95% confidence intervals, the software Jointpoint Regression Analysis v.4.6.0.0., was used. In Rio Branco, overweight prevalence ranged from 44.0% in 2006 to 58.9% in 2020, with a bigger frequency among men than that among women. Obesity prevalence has increased from 12.5% in 2006 to 21.4% in 2020, similar between both sexes. From 2006 to 2020, overweight APC was 5.2% (95% CI: 1.4; 9.1) by 2010, and decreased to 1.3% by 2020. Public policies to control obesity and its risks must be both, implemented as strengthened.
Highlights
Being overweight and obesity are considered problems of global public health
The increasing of mortality and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) associated with these risk factors was substantial for both sexes in 2017, with 2.4 million deaths and 70.7 million DALYs in women and 2.3 million deaths and 77.0 million of DALYs in men, reflecting overweightness and its vast disease burden
According to VIGITEL, frequency of overweight adults increased in some Brazilian capitals, such as: Florianópolis, from 48.8% to 53.6%; Goiânia, from 48.5% to 52.7%
Summary
Being overweight and obesity are considered problems of global public health. The. World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated an almost three-times increase in obesity’s prevalence in the last four decades (between 1975 and 2016). More than 650 million of them were obese, about 13% of world population (11% of men and 15% of women) [1]. Evidence indicates that the amount of overall death and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) attributable to obesity considerably increased between 1990 and 2017. In 2017, obesity contributed to 34.1 million deaths and 1.2 billion DALYs. The increasing of mortality and DALYs associated with these risk factors was substantial for both sexes in 2017, with 2.4 million deaths and 70.7 million DALYs in women and 2.3 million deaths and 77.0 million of DALYs in men, reflecting overweightness and its vast disease burden
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