Open AccessHigh prevalence of tobacco use, alcohol use and overweight in a rural population in Tamil Nadu, India
Author(s) -
Prabhdeep Kaur,
Sudha Ramachandra Rao,
Ezhil Radhakrishnan,
Rajeswari Ramachandran,
Ramachandran Venkatachalam,
M. D. Gupte
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of postgraduate medicine/journal of postgraduate medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.405
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 0972-2823
pISSN - 0022-3859
DOI - 10.4103/0022-3859.74284
Subject(s) - medicine , overweight , environmental health , obesity , tamil , population , body mass index , waist , smokeless tobacco , rural area , anthropometry , demography , traditional medicine , tobacco use , pathology , philosophy , linguistics , sociology
Cardiovascular diseases are one of the leading causes of death in India. There is high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in urban Tamil Nadu. There are limited data on the prevalence of behavioral risk factors and overweight in rural Tamil Nadu.