Association Between Body Mass index and Prevalence of Multimorbidity in Low-and Middle-income Countries: A Cross-Sectional Study | Zendy

Sutapa Agrawal | Zendy; Praween Agrawal | Zendy

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Association Between Body Mass index and Prevalence of Multimorbidity in Low-and Middle-income Countries: A Cross-Sectional Study

Author(s) -

Sutapa Agrawal,

Praween Agrawal

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

international journal of medicine and public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2230-8598

DOI - 10.5530/ijmedph.2016.2.5

Subject(s) - medicine , body mass index , overweight , obesity , cross sectional study , non communicable disease , asthma , public health , multimorbidity , environmental health , logistic regression , demography , diabetes mellitus , gerontology , population , pathology , sociology , nursing , endocrinology

Chronic diseases are increasingly becoming a health burden in terms of both morbidity and mortality in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The role of body mass index (BMI) especially overweight and obesity in the prevalence of multimorbidity, the occurrence of two or more chronic conditions, is understudied in LMICs where two thirds of the world's obese individuals reside. We estimated the association between BMI and prevalence of chronic non communicable disease multimorbidity in six LMICs.

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