Indicators of obesity and their relationship with the educational attainment of the Czech female population
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Indicators of obesity and their relationship with the educational attainment of the Czech female population
Original language description
The aim of this paper was to evaluate the relationship between selected indicators of obesity and the highest completed level of education in the adult female population of the Czech republic. As basic indicators of obesity, these following parameters were selected and measured via the bioimpedance method on the device InBody 720: BMI, WHR (waist-to-hip ratio), % body fat, % skeletal muscle mass, fitness score. The educational attainment of the tested women was inquired by a questionnaire. Based on theresponses, we subsequently divided our sample into four categories according to the level of education: primary education, secondary education-apprenticeship, secondary education-graduate diploma, university. Based on the results (p<0.05), we can saythat average values of the indicators obesity (BMI: 22.76, 24.88, 26.49 kg/m2, WHR: 0.85, 0.88, 0.90 and % body fat: 25.76, 30.23, 34.62%) increase with the increasing age of examined women. The average values of the fitness score (75.53,
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
AK - Sport and leisure time activities
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0044" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0044: An establishment of a research team under a lead of a reintegrated Czech scientist for a purpose of an identification of a movement activity level by chosen age groups of men and women in the Czech Republic.</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů