The effect of rural-to-urban migration on obesity and diabetes in India: a cross-sectional study.

The effect of rural-to-urban migration on obesity and diabetes in India: a cross-sectional study.

<h4>Background</h4>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...

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Main Authors: Shah Ebrahim, Sanjay Kinra, Liza Bowen, Elizabeth Andersen, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Tanica Lyngdoh, Lakshmy Ramakrishnan, R C Ahuja, Prashant Joshi, S Mohan Das, Murali Mohan, George Davey Smith, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, K Srinath Reddy, Indian Migration Study group
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-04-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20436961/pdf/?tool=EBI

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