Burden of Obesity – lessons learnt from Hong Kong Chinese

Summary There is now a pandemic of chronic diseases in Asian countries, driven mainly by obesity, diabetes and cardio‐renal complications. In Hong Kong, the reported prevalence of obesity, defined as body mass index (BMI) ≥ 25 kg m −2 , varied from one‐quarter to one‐third of the population. In a population‐based survey conducted in 1995, 16.7% of Hong Kong adults had the metabolic syndrome (MES) (National Cholesterol Education Programme...