High prevalence of abdominal obesities and metabolically unhealthy individuals in a highly urbanized district of India: findings of a cross-sectional survey in Puducherry.

Parthibane Sivanantham Jaya Prakash Sahoo Subitha Lakshminarayanan Zachariah Bobby Sitanshu Sekhar Kar

Published in: Family practice (2022)

We highlight the substantially high prevalence of IAAT, TAF, and SCAT in the district of Puducherry. Almost all the study population was metabolically unhealthy irrespective of their BMI levels.

Keyphrases

south africa
body mass index
weight gain