Review Article
A Review of Adult Obesity Prevalence, Trends, Risk Factors, and Epidemiologic Methods in Kuwait
Table 5
Obesity risk factors* reported in reviewed studies.
| | Sociodemographic | Socioeconomic | Sociocultural | Lifestyle | Dietary | Hereditary |
| | Female gender | Low high-school GPA | Number of families living in same household | Physical activity (−) | Number of regular meals eaten daily | Number of obese brothers | | Male gender in college students | Education level (−) | Number of relatives living in same household | Practice sports (−) | Number of times per week eating at restaurants | Number of obese relatives | | Age | High education in men | Number of siblings | Exercise in men (−) | Degree preferring salt in food | Paternal obesity | | Being married | High education in women (−) | Degree of religiosity | Smoking in men (−) | Need for special nutrition program | Maternal obesity | | Kuwaiti versus not | Educated wife (−) | | Treated dental health status (−) | Dieting | Arab versus South Asian ethnicity | | Ahmadi governorate versus capital | Working women | | Recent health check-up (−) | | | | | Field versus office work | | Health promoting lifestyle score (−) | | | | | High family income | | High depression score in men (−) | | | | | Socioeconomic status (−) | | | | | | | Employing household cook | | | | |
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Factors are positively associated with obesity unless inverse association (−) is noted in the parenthesis next to risk factor.
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