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NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF THE PATIENTS VISITED THE NUTRITION COUNSELLING CENTER OF VIETNAM NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION
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Aims: To determine the nutritional status of patients who visited the Nutrition Counseling Center of the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN).
Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on 431 patients who visited for nutrition counseling at the Department of Adult Nutrition Consultation (NIN) from May 2021 to April 2022. Nutritional status was classified using BMI cutoffs for Western Pacific Region, with BMI < 18.5 and BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 to define chronic energy deficiency (CED) and overweight and obesity, respectively; high body fat percentage was defined as body fat percentage >30% and > 25% for women and men, respectively.
Results: The rates of CED, overweight, and obesity were 29.7%, 13.5%, and 3.7%, respectively. The proportion of overweight and obesity were 21.9% and 6.1% in men; and 10.4% and 2.8% in women, respectively. The figure was significantly higher in men (28%) compared to women (13.2%), while the rate of chronic energy deficiency (CED) was significantly lower in men (22.8%) than that in women (32.2%) (p <0.05). The rate of obesity and CED was highest in the 20-29 age group. The rates of overweight, obesity and CED were 13.2, 3.7, and 25.4% in city; and 13.8, 3.8, and 37.1% in countryside, respectively.
Conclusions: The findings alarmed the occurrence of obesity and CED in young population. The similar rate of overweight and obesity in city and countryside while there was significant difference of CED rate between the two regions.
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Nutritional status, overweight-obesity, chronic energy deficiency, patients
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