Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy
Open Access

Abstract

This study is to assess the association of overweight/obesity, metabolic homeostasis and sedentary lifestyle in young adolescents living in first-tier city of northern mainland China. Children and adolescence is a critical stage, the technological age has resulted in more and more youth spending prolonged hours towards TV and internet currently, such behaviors associated with overweight/obesity and metabolic homeostasis interactively. This study discussed the epidemiological characteristics of homeostasis in youth from 12-21 years in a first-tier city of northern mainland China, Tianjin. The results showed that the proportion of overweight and obesity in the study population was approaching 50%, higher for boys (P<0.000). Status of higher blood pressure level proportion calculation among the boys admitted of no optimism. As for the blood lipid level status, higher proportion of abnormal ones was found among the girls. However, the status for fasting blood sugar level was just fine. And the time spending towards TV among rural youth was 0.56 and 0.53 hours for boys and girls, 0.34 and 0.33 hours for the urban ones. In the invariable analysis, the odds ratio for TV time increasing, internet time increasing and both TV and internet time increasing towards overweight/obesity showed no statistically significance, even after adjusted by the factors of other metabolic homeostasis status. However, when considered more potential influenced factors including dietary habits, lifestyle factors and sport factors, a slight positive relationship between increasing of Internet time and increasing risk of overweight/obesity, as well as increasing sleep duration were detected. The findings confirmed a positive association between risk of metabolic homeostasis, sedentary behaviors and lifestyle, which created the need for action to prevent and control them.

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