Yan-Han YuShu-Hui Yang2026-05-262026-05-262007-06https://203.71.86.71/handle/123456789/38356The global epidemic of overweight and obesity - "globesity" - is rapidly becoming a major public health problem and further, the new burden in many parts of the world.World Health Organization (WHO)’s previousdata release indicates that in 2005 more than 1 billion adults were overweight globally, and at least 300 million of them obese. Global upsurge in overweight and obesity is now confirmed to be attributable to the synergistic effect of exogenous and endogenous factors. The dramatic shift in diet pattern and trend towards sedentary life style take place while genetic predisposition lies underneath. The purpose of this study is to confirm the idea of obesigenic predisposition and assess the possible relationship between parental BMI and the BMI status of their offspring when other exogenous factors are excluded. A total sample of 98 subjects were recruited from junior college students, aged 20~22 yr, in the school of nutrition and health sciences at Taipei Medical University in March, 2007. The BMI of the students and their parents were calculated from self-reported weight and height. BMI cut-off points for being overweight and obese are ＞24(kg/m2) and ＞27(kg/m2) respectively, according to the BMI standard reference for adult set by department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan. The prevalence of overweight and obesity was calculated and logistic regressions were performed. Of total population in parents(n=189)，34％ were considered overweight，12％ to be obese.While only 9％ and 1％ to be considered overweight and obese in the total population of 98 in offspring. Among those who were overweight, male tended to have higher ratios than their female counterparts: for male ,46％and 23％were overweight in parents and offspring respectively, 22％ and 5％ were the ratios for female. A total of 47 students who were from families without parental overweight, 2％(n=1) of them found to be overweight. Of the families with either parental overweight, 8％(n=3) had an overweight offspring, while on the other hand, the presence of both parental overweight had a much higher ratio of 42％(n=5) for having an overweight offspring. Of the total population of maternal overweight, 27％(n=6) of them had an overweight offspring, while 17％(n=7) was the ratio for paternal overweight. A significant difference of gender disparity on obesigenic predisposition might be suggested from the data. Keywords: BMI, parent, offspring , overweight, obesigenic predisposition190358 bytesapplication/pdfen-US保健營養學系海報other