1. Prevalence of generalized & abdominal obesity in urban & rural India- the ICMR - INDIAB Study (Phase-I) [ICMR - INDIAB-3]
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Viswanathan Mohan, Rajendra Pradeepa, RanjitMohan Anjana, ShashankR Joshi, Anil Bhansali, Mohan Deepa, PrashantP Joshi, VinayK Dhandania, SriVenkata Madhu, PaturiVishnupriya Rao, Loganathan Geetha, Radhakrishnan Subashini, Ranjit Unnikrishnan, DeepakKumar Shukla, Tanvir Kaur, AshokKumar Das, and null ICMR-INDIAB
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INDIAB ,Male ,Gerontology ,Study phase ,Population ,India ,lcsh:Medicine ,Overweight ,Rural india ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Abdominal obesity - combined obesity - generalized obesity - INDIAB - India ,Diabetes Mellitus ,medicine ,Humans ,education ,Abdominal obesity ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,lcsh:R ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Obesity ,generalized obesity ,combined obesity ,Obesity, Abdominal ,Hypertension ,Original Article ,Female ,Residence ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Body mass index ,Demography - Abstract
Background & objectives: Overweight and obesity are rapidly increasing in countries like India. This study was aimed at determining the prevalence of generalized, abdominal and combined obesity in urban and rural India. Methods: Phase I of the ICMR-INDIAB study was conducted in a representative population of three s0 tates [Tamil Nadu (TN), Maharashtra (MH) and Jharkhand (JH)] and one Union Territory (UT)[Chandigarh (CH)] of India. A stratified multi-stage sampling design was adopted and individuals ≥20 yr of age were included. WHO Asia Pacific guidelines were used to define overweight [body mass index (BMI) ≥23 kg/m [2] but
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- 2015