SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – One out of every three adults in South Korea is obese, with the obesity rate for those in their 30s exceeding 50 percent. Regionally, Jeju Island has the highest obesity rate. On Wednesday, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) unveiled the current trends in obesity rates reported by municipal [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pharmaceutical companies, currently involved in developing drugs for diabetes and obesity, are emphasizing the improvement of usage convenience by extending drug efficacy durations and modifying formulations. Peptron Inc. is progressing toward transferring PT404, a sustained-release diabetes and obesity treatment formulation, to global pharmaceutical firms. Unlike existing treatments [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The prevalence of obesity among South Korean teenagers has doubled over a period of 15 years, with related socio-economic inequality deepening. A research team led by Kim Hyun-chang, a professor at Yonsei University College of Medicine, analyzed big data on 818,210 middle and high school students who participated in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean men have become more obese over the past 13 years due to drinking and lack of exercise, a government report showed Friday. The percentage of males aged 19 and over who have body mass indexes (BMIs) of 25 kilograms per square meter or over reached 44.8 percent [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team from the Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) found that obesity strengthens resistance to the infection of the herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) that causes sexually transmitted diseases. The infection of the HSV-2 induces [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — For South Korean adults, the obesity and diabetes prevalence rate slightly declined, while the high cholesterol prevalence rate increased last year, a report showed Thursday. The obesity prevalence rate stood at 46.3 percent for men and 26.9 percent for women last year, down 1.7 percentage points and 0.8 percentage points, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of every 10 students from elementary to high schools were overweight or obese last year as the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic kept them from outdoor activities, an education ministry report showed Tuesday. The rate of overweight or obese students reached 30.8 percent as of 2021, according to the [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The social losses caused by alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking and obesity have reached nearly 42 trillion won (US$32.9 billion), a study showed Monday. The National Health Insurance Service estimated that socioeconomic costs caused by health risks posed by drinking, smoking and obesity reached 41.8 trillion won as of 2019, [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of obese people in South Korea more than doubled between 2017 and 2021, a trend exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Thursday. According to the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, the number of overweight patients increased from 14,966 in 2017 to 31,170 last year. The [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The obesity rate among children and teenagers has increased following the spread of COVID-19, which has forced many to remain indoors. A research team from Nowon Eulji Medical Center compared the body mass index (BMI) data of children who visited the hospital before and during the pandemic. Of 113 [...]