The Effect of Rural-to-Urban Migration on Obesity and Diabetes in India: A Cross-Sectional Study

Ebrahim, Shah; Kinra, Sanjay; Bowen, Liza; Andersen, Elizabeth; Ben‐Shlomo, Yoav; Lyngdoh, Tanica; Ramakrishnan, Lakshmy; Ahuja, Rajeev; Joshi, Prashant; Das, Sidhartha; Mohan, Murali; Davey Smith, George; Prabhakaran, Dorairaj; Srinath Reddy, K.; the Indian Migration Study group¶, for

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000268

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The Effect of Rural-to-Urban Migration on Obesity and Diabetes in India: A Cross-Sectional Study

Published in PLoS Medicine • Apr 27, 2010

Authors:

Shah Ebrahim

Sanjay Kinra

Liza Bowen

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Migration from rural areas of India contributes to urbanisation and may increase the risk of obesity and diabetes. We tested the hypotheses that rural-to-urban migrants have a higher prevalence of obesity and diabetes than rural nonmigrants, that migrants would have an intermediate preva...

Subject

Obesity

Medicine

Diabetes mellitus

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