Prevalence of overweight and obesity in Down's syndrome and other mentally handicapped adults living in the community
- 1 August 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
- Vol. 36 (4) , 359-364
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2788.1992.tb00534.x
Abstract
To find out the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the mentally handicapped, 183 subjects living in the community were studied; 58 of whom had Down's syndrome. It was found that 70–58% of males and 95–83% of females with Down's syndrome, and 49–29% males and 62–96% females from other mentally handicapped subjects, were categorized as overweight and obese, compared with 40% of males and 32% females in that category from normal population.Keywords
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