Impact of dietary intake patterns and level of physical activity on the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Omani adults
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Abstract
Background: The prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased globally, and Oman is no exception. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the impact of dietary intake patterns and level of physical activity (PA) on the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Omani adults. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 402 adults (both males and females aged 18 and 60 years) were selected from all Omani governorates. Results: The results showed that 53.7% of the study population was either overweight or obese, particularly those older than 30 years. Body mass index (BMI) was significantly ( P < 0.05) affected by gender and age group but not by the residential area (urban vs. rural). Overweight (BMI ≥25) was more prevalent in younger males than females (55% vs. 11% in the 18–24-year age group), and the rate of weight gain increased rapidly with advancing age. Within the 35 to 44-year age group, 72% of males and 74% of females were either overweight or obese. Daily dietary energy intake was higher in males than in females ( P < 0.05). Males had a significantly higher level of PA than females ( P < 0.001). However, no significant differences were observed in dietary energy intake and PA levels among various age groups. Conclusion: Overall, the results of this study confirm a high prevalence of overweight and obesity across all adult age groups in the Omani population with significant gender differences. The higher BMI rates in young males compared to females need further investigations into contributing factors. Interventional strategies and public health policies must be developed to target the unhealthy dietary patterns and physical inactivity behaviors to reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Omani adults.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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