Abdominal vs. overall obesity among women in a nutrition transition context: geographic and socio-economic patterns of abdominal-only obesity in Tunisia

Conclusion: Measures of abdominal adiposity need to be included in population-level appraisals of the burden of obesity, especially among women in the MENA region. The causes of the highly prevalent abdominal-only obesity status among women require further investigation.

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Source: Population Health Metrics - January 24, 2015 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Pierre TraissacRebecca PradeillesJalila El AtiHajer Aounallah-SkhiriSabrina Eymard-DuvernayAgnès GartnerChiraz BéjiSouha BougatefYves Martin-PrévelPatrick KolsterenFrancis DelpeuchHabiba Ben RomdhaneBernard MairePierre Traissac Source Type: research