The purpose of this study was to investigate the current status of chronic diseases according to obesity in the elderly older than age 65 using data from the 7th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2016~2018). The subjects of the survey were 3,245 elderly older than age 65 who participated in the health survey and nutrition survey, 45.8% of the subjects were males and 54.2% of the subjects were female. 37.5% of all the elderly were obese, and the females (42.4%) were more obese than the males (31.8%) (p<0.001). Diabetes, hypertension, and hypertriglyceridemia had a similar prevalence of 24.6%, 63.0%, and 12.7% in males and females, respectively. Hypercholesterolemia was higher in the elderly females (44.2%) than in the elderly males (24.9%) (p<0.001). Through the logistic regression analysis, it was found that the prevalence of chronic diseases was higher in obesity than normal in elderly males and females (p<0.001). The total food intake increased from ‘under weight’ to ‘obesity’ in males (p<0.01) and females (p<0.001). In the case of the elderly males, the higher the degree of obesity, the higher the energy intake (p<0.05), and ‘pre-obesity’ consumed the most energy in elderly females. As a result of this study, the higher the obesity rate of the elderly, the higher the prevalence of chronic diseases.

Abstract
서 론
연구대상 및 방법
    1. 분석자료 및 대상
    2. 분석내용 및 방법
    3. 통계분석
결과 및 고찰
    1. 일반사항
    2. 만성질환 현황 및 체질량지수, 혈압, 혈액검사 측정값
    3. 비만도에 따른 만성질환 현황
    4. 비만도가 만성질환 유병 여부에 미치는 영향
    5. 비만도에 따른 식품군 및 영양소 섭취량
요약 및 결론
References

• 한규상(호남대학교 식품영양학과) | Gyusang Han (Dept. of Food and Nutrition, Honam University) Corresponding author