Measurements Indices of Obesity and Their Relation to Cardiovascular Disease Risks among Selected Employees of the Municipality of Naujan, Oriental Mindoro

Obesity is now one of the most serious public health concerns of this century with increasing incidence and prevalence, high costs on medical and hospital expenses and poor outcome to being productive and efficient citizen (Maguire, 2010). The significance of obesity on the quality of life began to be recognized and recorded in the eighteenth century, but in the middle of the nineteenth century did the people identified it as the cause of illnesses. The morbid complications and increased mortality were documented only in the first decades of the twentieth century (Beller, A.S, 1977). The gradual emergence of obesity seen in increasing incidence over the past 60 years had alarmed and led the World Health Organization to declare it as a global epidemic and worldwide public-health crisis (World Health Organization Press, 2005).