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