Shields Margot, Carroll Margaret D, Ogden Cynthia L
Statistics Canada, Health Analysis Division.
NCHS Data Brief. 2011 Mar(56):1-8.
Obesity is a public health challenge throughout the world. Ongoing monitoring of trends in obesity is important to assess interventions aimed at preventing or reducing the burden of obesity. Since the 1960s, measured height and weight have been collected in the United States as part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). In Canada, data on measured height and weight have been collected from nationally representative samples of the population less regularly. This changed in 2007 with the launch of the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS), the scope and purpose of which are similar to those of NHANES. The objective of this report is to compare estimates of the prevalence of obesity between Canadian and American adults.
肥胖是全球面临的一项公共卫生挑战。持续监测肥胖趋势对于评估旨在预防或减轻肥胖负担的干预措施至关重要。自20世纪60年代以来，美国已将测量身高和体重作为国家健康与营养检查调查（NHANES）的一部分进行收集。在加拿大，从全国具有代表性的人口样本中收集测量身高和体重数据的频率较低。2007年随着加拿大健康测量调查（CHMS）的开展，这种情况发生了变化，该调查的范围和目的与NHANES相似。本报告的目的是比较加拿大和美国成年人肥胖患病率的估计值。
