Published on in Vol 9 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/43199, first published .
Prevalence, Regional Variations, and Predictors of Overweight, Obesity, and Hypertension Among Healthy Reproductive-Age Indian Women: Nationwide Cross-Sectional Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Task Force Study

Prevalence, Regional Variations, and Predictors of Overweight, Obesity, and Hypertension Among Healthy Reproductive-Age Indian Women: Nationwide Cross-Sectional Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Task Force Study

Prevalence, Regional Variations, and Predictors of Overweight, Obesity, and Hypertension Among Healthy Reproductive-Age Indian Women: Nationwide Cross-Sectional Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Task Force Study

Mohd Ashraf Ganie   1 * , MBBS, MD, DM ;   Subhankar Chowdhury   2 * , MBBS, MD, DM ;   Vanita Suri   3 * , MBBS, MD ;   Beena Joshi   4 * , MSc, PhD ;   Prasanta Kumar Bhattacharya   5 * , MD, PhD ;   Sarita Agrawal   6 * , MBBS, MD ;   Neena Malhotra   7 * , MBBS, MD ;   Rakesh Sahay   8 * , MD, DM ;   Puthiyaveettil Khadar Jabbar   9 * , MD, DM ;   Roya Rozati   10 * , MBBS, MD ;   Imtiyaz Ahmad Wani   1 * , MSc, PhD ;   Amlin Shukla   11 * , MD ;   Taruna Arora   11 * , PhD ;   Haroon Rashid   1 * , PhD

1 Department of Endocrinology, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, India

2 Department of Endocrinology, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata, India

3 Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

4 Department of Operational Research, National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Mumbai, India

5 Department of General Medicine, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Meghalaya, India

6 Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Chatisgarh, India

7 Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

8 Department of Endocrinology, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India

9 Department of Endocrinology, Government Medical College, Kerala, India

10 Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Maternal Health & Research Trust, Hyderabad, India

11 Reproductive Biology and Maternal Health, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India

*all authors contributed equally

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