主観的肥満度の背景となる身体および生活要因に関する研究

本研究的目的是阐明“主观肥胖”概念的有用性，即自我评估肥胖。然而，身体质量指数（BMI）等传统指标一直基于测量身体尺寸。在考虑人类健康状况时，主观评价的概念是不可或缺的，因为这些健康状况是通过人们的日常活动来认识的。该假设被测试是否客观和一个既定的指标肥胖，即。例如，BMI与健康状况和日常活动指标有着共同的关系，其中包括疾病、健康投诉、血液测定、吸烟、饮酒和食物摄入模式。在卫生中心的协助下，在两个地区进行了现场调查，以收集数据。例如，在一个小岛和一个农业村庄里。判别分析结果表明，主观肥胖与BMI有较好的相关性，但在某些指标上两者之间存在差异。还进行了实地研究，以确定居住在Sakushima的老年人口的迁移史和抑郁症状。

The purpose of this study is to clarify the usefulness of a notion of 'subjective obesity', that is a evaluation of obesity by oneself. Traditional indicators such as body mass index(BMI), however, have been based on measuring body sizes. The notion of subjective evaluation is indispensable in considering health conditions of human beings, bacause those are recognized by the pursuit of their daily activities. The hypothesis was tested whether objective and an established indices of obesity, i. e., BMI, show common relations to health conditions and indicators of daily activities, where illness, heaith complains, blood determinations, smoking, drinking, and food intake patterns are included. Field surveys for data collection were carried out with assistances of Health Center at two areas, o. e., in a small island and in an agricultural village. Results of discriminaant analysis indicated that subjective obesity has a good correlation with BMI, but a little bit differed beween two indiced with respect to some selected indicators. Field studies for identifyinf migratory histories and depressive symptoms for the aged population living in Sakushima were also carried out.