Past and projected trends of body mass index and weight status in South Australia: 2003 to 2019

Hendrie, Gilly A., Ullah, Shahid, Scott, Jane A., Gray, John, Berry, Narelle, Booth, Sue, Carter, Patricia, Cobiac, Lynne and Coveney, John (2015) Past and projected trends of body mass index and weight status in South Australia: 2003 to 2019. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 39 (6). pp. 536-543. ISSN 1326-0200

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Functional data analysis (FDA) is a forecasting approach that, to date, has not been applied to obesity, and that may provide more accurate forecasting analysis to manage uncertainty in public health. This paper uses FDA to provide projections of Body Mass Index (BMI), overweight and obesity in an Australian population through to 2019.  METHODS: Data from the South Australian Monitoring and Surveillance System (January 2003 to December 2012, n=51,618 adults) were collected via telephone interview survey. FDA was conducted in four steps: 1) age-gender specific BMIs for each year were smoothed using a weighted regression; 2) the functional principal components decomposition was applied to estimate the basis functions; 3) an exponential smoothing state space model was used for forecasting the coefficient series; and 4) forecast coefficients were combined with the basis function.  RESULTS: The forecast models suggest that between 2012 and 2019 average BMI will increase from 27.2 kg/m(2) to 28.0 kg/m(2) in males and 26.4 kg/m(2) to 27.6 kg/m(2) in females. The prevalence of obesity is forecast to increase by 6-7 percentage points by 2019 (to 28.7% in males and 29.2% in females).  CONCLUSIONS: Projections identify age-gender groups at greatest risk of obesity over time. The novel approach will be useful to facilitate more accurate planning and policy development.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2015 Public Health Association of Australia.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	obesity,body mass index,forecasting,functional data analysis,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Nutrition and Preventive Medicine
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	21 Jun 2016 12:08
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 08:48
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/59438
DOI:	10.1111/1753-6405.12442

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