Effects of sedentary lifestyle and dietary habits on body mass index change among adult women in India: findings from a follow-up study.
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.
Population Council, New Delhi, India.
Praween
P
Agrawal
Kamla
K
Gupta
Vinod
V
Mishra
Sutapa
S
Agrawal
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015992:Body Mass Index; D004032:Diet; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000209:etiology*; D050177:Overweight; D012307:Risk Factors; D057185:Sedentary Behavior; D055815:Young Adult