Table 2. Prevalence of general obesity and abdominal obesity in Kazakh and Uyghur rural adults according to gender and age categories#–WGOC Criteria ## .
| Age(years) | General obesity | Abdominal obesity | ||||||||||
| Kazakh | Uyghur | Kazakh | Uyghur | |||||||||
| Male | Female | Total | Male | Female | Total | Male | Female | Total | Male | Female | Total | |
| 18–24 | 1(1.0) | 3(1.6) | 4(1.4) | 4 (1.5) | 11 (3.8) | 15 (2.7) | 15(15.6) | 42(22.0) | 57(19.9) | 55(20.3) * | 129 (44.9) | 184(33.0) |
| 25–34 | 26(9.0) | 27(6.4) | 53(7.4) | 25 (5.6) | 18 (4.1) | 43 (4.8) | 122(42.1) | 185 (43.7) | 307(43.1) | 147 (32.7) * | 207 (46.7) | 354(39.6) |
| 35–44 | 61 (17.0) | 94 (14.6) | 155 (15.5) | 49 (11.3) | 51 (10.0) | 100 (10.6) | 194(54.2) | 361 (56.1) | 555(55.4) | 227 (52.2)* | 371 (72.6) | 598(63.2) |
| 45–54 | 85(22.2) | 148 (24.5) | 233 (23.6) | 29 (9.6)* | 51 (14.9) | 80 (12.4) | 268(70.0) | 437 (72.2) | 705(71.4) | 178 (58.9)* | 257 (75.1) | 435(67.5) |
| 55–64 | 88 (28.1) | 115 (31.9) | 203 (30.1) | 19 (6.6) | 27 (9.2) | 46 (7.9) | 229(73.2)* | 294 (81.4) | 523(77.6) | 167 (57.8) * | 220 (75.3) | 387(66.6) |
| ≥65 | 25 (22.5) | 43 (29.7) | 68(26.6) | 14 (4.8) | 14 (6.8) | 28 (5.7) | 79(71.2)* | 127 (87.6) | 206(80.5) | 151 (52.2)* | 136 (66.3) | 287(58.1) |
| Overall | 286 (18.4) | 430 (18.2) | 716 (18.3) | 140 (6.9) | 172 (8.3) | 312 (7.6) | 907(58.5) | 1446 (61.0) | 2353(60.0) | 925 (45.4) | 1320 (63.5) | 2245(54.5) |
| χ2trend | 52.40 | 146.04 | 193.63 | 1.70 | 11.09 | 10.41 | 137.98 | 309.24 | 437.07 | 101.08 | 84.64 | 168.190 |
| P value | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.192 | 0.001 | 0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
Note: # = Data were expressed as n (%). Descriptive characteristics were compared by χ2 test and trend test.
##
= General obesity: BMI ≥28 kg/m2; Abdominal obesity: WC ≥85 cm for men and ≥80 cm for women.
* = P<0.05 versus female from the same ethnic group and age.