Research Article
High Prevalence of Overweight/Obesity in Urban Sri Lanka: Findings from the Colombo Urban Study
Table 5
Prevalence (95% confidence intervals) of weight status according to ethnicity, education, smoking, and alcohol use (
).
| | Underweight | Overweight | Obesity | Abdominal obesity |
| | Ethnicity | | | | | | Sinhala | 9.3 (5.6–13.0) | 10.9 (7.5–14.4) | 52.3 (46.4–58.3) | 56.8 (50.8–62.7) | | Tamil | 2.8 (0.0–8.2) | 19.3 (9.3–29.3) | 40.2 (26.3–54.2) | 44.8 (30.8–58.8) | | Moor | 4.3 (0.0–9.2) | 14.9 (6.3–23.4) | 65.5 (54.3–76.7) | 74.4 (63.8–85.0) | | Education | | | | | | < grade 5 | 4.8 (0.2–9.3) | 13.1 (5.2–21.0) | 50.9 (39.3–62.4) | 71.6 (60.7–82.6) | | Up to O/L | 8.7 (4.7–12.6) | 12.5 (8.3–16.7) | 54.5 (47.6–61.3) | 55.3 (48.5–62.2) | | Up to A/L | 7.0 (1.8–12.2) | 13.5 (7.3–19.7) | 49.7 (40.2–59.1) | 55.3 (45.8–64.8) | | Above A/L | 8.4 (0.0–23.8) | 10.8 (0.0–26.6) | 56.8 (31.9–81.7) | 70.1 (47.7–92.5) | | Smoking | | | | | | No | 7.1 (4.2–10.0) | 12.2 (8.8–15.6) | 53.0 (4.8–58.3) | 60.6 (55.3–65.9) | | Current | 13.3 (1.8–24.8) | 12.6 (3.6–21.5) | 47.2 (30.2–64.2) | 40.4 (23.8–57.0) | | Past | 7.8 (0.0–16.4) | 22.3 (7.3–37.4) | 57.8 (38.8–76.8) | 45.1 (24.4–65.8) | | Alcohol | | | | | | No | 7.6 (4.5–10.8) | 11.9 (8.4–15.4) | 54.1 (48.6–59.6) | 61.9 (56.5–67.4) | | Current | 8.4 (1.2–15.6) | 14.3 (6.7–21.9) | 46.6 (33.9–59.4) | 44.0 (31.4–56.7) | | Past | 5.4 (0.0–12.4) | 23.5 (5.7–41.2) | 46.2 (23.5–69.0) | 31.1 (9.8–52.3) |
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