Open AccessPrevalence of Obesity among Rehabilitated Urban Slum Dwellers and Altered Body Image Perception in India (PRESUME)
Author(s) -
Jeffrey Pradeep Raj,
Shervin Ploriya
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.456
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2230-9500
pISSN - 2230-8210
DOI - 10.4103/ijem.ijem_363_17
Subject(s) - medicine , overweight , demography , obesity , odds ratio , population , cross sectional study , confidence interval , logistic regression , environmental health , pathology , sociology
An understudied risk factor for overweight/obesity in our population is distorted body image perception where studies from the west have proved a clear association between the two. We therefore aimed to evaluate the same and document the prevalence of overweight/obesity among rehabilitated slum dwellers.