Unhealthy weight among children and adults in India: Urbanicity and the crossover in underweight and overweight

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 336-341.e2

  Patel, Shivani A ^a   Narayan, K M Venkat ^a   Cunningham, Solveig A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

India; Obesity; Overweight; Underweight; Urbanicity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; UNDERWEIGHT; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OVERWEIGHT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; THINNESS; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928206063     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: 18732585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2015.02.009     Document Type: Article

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