Occupational Health Approach regarding Tracking Phenomenon to Adult Obesity

Abstract

　In recent years, the very high risk of childhood obesity tracking to adulthood has been reported from the standpoint of preventive medicine. For people working in companies, avoiding obesity is a basic aspect of health management that decreases the risk of disease for the individual while also contributing to corporate productivity. However, since BMI shows an increasing trend in childhood, no evaluation method has been established. In this study, the changes with age in BMI were analyzed with a wavelet interpolation model, and evaluation chart that gives the standard curve for age-related change in BMI during childhood was constructed to identify obesity. Examinations were made of the validity of the obesity-thinness judgments and the physical development of the judged obesity types, and the tracking pattern of childhood obesity to adulthood was investigated from the standpoint of occupational health. The obesity tracking status was also investigated to explore the management of obesity risk in company employees.