A Study of the Body Composition, Obesity according to Working Pattern of Working Women

여성 근로자들의 근무형태에 따른 체성분 분석 결과 비만도 지수에 대한 고찰

  • Lee, Ja-Young (Dept. of Genecology, College of Oriental Medicine, Daegu Haany University) ;
  • Seung, Jun-Ho (Dept. of Genecology, College of Oriental Medicine, Daegu Haany University) ;
  • Park, Young-Sun (Dept. of Genecology, College of Oriental Medicine, Daegu Haany University) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Chul (Dept. of Genecology, College of Oriental Medicine, Daegu Haany University)
  • 이자영 (대구한의대학교 한의과대학 부인과 교실) ;
  • 성준호 (대구한의대학교 한의과대학 부인과 교실) ;
  • 박영선 (대구한의대학교 한의과대학 부인과 교실) ;
  • 김동철 (대구한의대학교 한의과대학 부인과 교실)
  • Published : 2008.08.30

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze body composition, obesity according to working pattern of working women. The subjects were workers in the automobile manufacturing industry. Methods: The subjects consisted of 514 industrial women workers who had received Korean oriental medicine health examination and submitted questionires about working pattern, during 8 months from April 2005 to November 2005. The body composition was measured by X-scan(Jawon medical, Seoul, Korea). We analyzed the relationship between body composition analysis, obesity and shift pattern with $X^2-test$ using the SPSS Ver. 12.0 Results: Regarding the realationship between body composition and working pattern, shift worker group had a significantly higher level of body weight, ratio of body fat, visceral fat and abdominal fat than normal worker. Conclusion: From this study, we can know that shift work can influence on working women's body composition and obesity.

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