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. 2013;52(5):387-406.
doi: 10.1080/03670244.2012.719346.

Effects of sedentary lifestyle and dietary habits on body mass index change among adult women in India: findings from a follow-up study

Praween Agrawal  1 , Kamla Gupta, Vinod Mishra, Sutapa Agrawal
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Effects of sedentary lifestyle and dietary habits on body mass index change among adult women in India: findings from a follow-up study

Praween Agrawal et al. Ecol Food Nutr. 2013.

Abstract

We examined the effects of sedentary lifestyle and dietary habits on body mass index (BMI) change in a follow-up study of 325 women (aged 15-49 years) in Delhi, systematically selected from the 1998-1999 National Family Health Survey samples who were re-interviewed after 4 years in 2003. Information was collected on height, weight, dietary habits, and sedentary lifestyle through face-to-face interviews. Overall, a 2.0-point increase in mean BMI was found among women in just 4 years. Every second normal-BMI woman, two in five overweight women, and every fourth obese woman experienced a > 2.0-point increase in her mean BMI. High sedentary lifestyle (OR: 2.63; 95% CI: 1.29-5.35) emerged as the main predictor of a > 2.0-point increase in mean BMI in adjusted analysis, but there was weak evidence of association with the dietary covariates. Our findings suggest that a high sedentary lifestyle is a determinant of weight gain among adult women in urban India.

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