ArticleJournal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi2012
Differences in obesity rates between people with and without disabilities and the association of disability and obesity: a nationwide population study in South Korea.
Article in Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Exploring the Relationship Between Participation in Leisure Sports Activities, Health Behaviors, and Life Satisfaction Among Older Adults with Disabilities.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Pilot evaluation of a behavioral weight loss program for adults with physical disabilities: State of Slim Everybody usability and feasibility.Obesity science & practice · 2024Article
- Weight history of individuals with and without physical disability in the International Weight Control Registry.Obesity science & practice · 2024Article
- Investigation of the Relationship Between Psychiatry Visit and Suicide After Deliberate Self-harm: Longitudinal National Cohort Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2023Article
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- The complexity of reaching and maintaining a healthy body weight - the experience from adults with a mobility disability.BMC obesity · 2018Article
- Effects of a walking exercise program for obese individuals with intellectual disability staying in a residential care facility.Journal of physical therapy science · 2016Article
- Impacts of mobility disability and high and increasing body mass index on health-related quality of life and participation in society: a population-based cohort study from Sweden.BMC public health · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe objective of this study was to identify the differences in obesity rates among people with and without disabilities, and evaluate the relationship between obesity rates and the existence of disabilities or characteristics of disabilities.
methodsMass screening data from 2008 from the National Disability Registry and National Health Insurance (NHI) are used. For analysis, we classified physical disability into three subtypes: upper limb disability, lower limb disability, and spinal cord injury. For a control group, we extracted people without disabilities by each subtype. To adjust for the participation rate in the NHI mass screening, we calculated and adopted the weight stratified by sex, age, and grade of disability. Differences in obesity rates between people with and without disabilities were examined by a chi-squared test. In addition, the effect of the existence of disabilities and grade of disabilities on obesity was examined by multiple logistic regression analysis.
resultsPeople with disabilities were found to have a higher obesity rate than those without disabilities. The obesity rates were 35.2% and 35.0% (people with disabilities vs. without disabilities) in the upper limb disability, 44.5% and 34.8% in the lower limb disability, 43.4% and 34.6% in the spinal cord injury. The odds for existence of physical disability and grade of disability are higher than the non-disabilities.
conclusionsThese results show that people with physical disability have a higher vulnerability to obesity.
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