Parity and Overweight/Obesity in Peruvian Women
ORIGINAL RESEARCH — Volume 14 — October 26, 2017
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Each map shows the regional prevalence of overweight and obesity according to Peruvian nulliparous women, women with 1 child, and women with 2 or more children. These figures depict that the more children a women have, the higher the overweight/obesity prevalence. Noteworthy, among women with 2 or more children (third map on the right), the obesity prevalence is higher on the west (coastal) region and on the east (mainly the Amazon region); the former is highly urbanized, which could explain part of the results, although research on noncommunicable diseases and risk factors on the latter region is still scarce.
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Regional prevalence of women with overweight/obesity, by number of children, Peru’s Demographic and Health Survey, 2012.
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