Why the study?
Is overweight or obesity associated with an increased prevalence of non-communicable disease multimorbidity in adults from low- and middle-income countries?
Population
40,166 adults aged 18 years and above from six low- and middle-income countries included in the WHO Study on…
Comparison
Overweight and obesity vs Normal weight category
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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BMI-multimorbidity association in LMICs is observational; leaves open causality and need for longitudinal studies.
Is overweight or obesity associated with an increased prevalence of non-communicable disease multimorbidity in adults from low- and middle-income countries?
Obesity is independently associated with a nearly six-fold higher odds of non-communicable disease multimorbidity in low- and middle-income countries.
Agrawal et al. (2016) studied this question.
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