Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2024
Trends in prevalence of overweight and obesity, self-perceived overweight or obesity, and weight loss efforts among older adults in South Korea, 2005-2021.
We assessed trends in prevalence of overweight and obesity, self-perceived overweight or obesity, and efforts to lose weight among Korean older adults from 2005 to 2021. ⋯ There were increasing trends in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in older Korean men, self-perceived overweight or obesity, and weight loss efforts in older Korean men and women.