Secular trends in prevalence of overweight and obesity over a decade in urban and rural South Indian children integrated with geographic information system

Conclusions: We report that this increase was significantly higher in girls than boys. There was an increasing trend in rural sectors; however, the obese children were more predominantly distributed among the urban sectors. This calls for a precise preventive measure to fulfil the goal of the World Health Organization (WHO) to control prevalence of childhood obesity by the year 2022.

Source: Indian Journal of Dental Research - January 17, 2023 Category: Dentistry Authors: HP Chanchala B Madhu Manjunatha S Nagaraja Raghavendra Shanbhog Source Type: research