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

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...

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Autores principales: Ebrahim, Shah, Kinra, Sanjay, Bowen, Liza, Andersen, Elizabeth, Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Lyngdoh, Tanica, Ramakrishnan, Lakshmy, Ahuja, R. C., Joshi, Prashant, Das, S. Mohan, Mohan, Murali, Davey Smith, George, Prabhakaran, Dorairaj, Reddy, K. Srinath
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2860494/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20436961
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000268

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2860494/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20436961
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000268

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