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BODY MASS INDEX OF MARRIED BANGLADESHI WOMEN: TRENDS AND ASSOCIATION WITH SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS
- Source :
- Journal of Biosocial Science. 44:385-399
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012.
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Abstract
- SummaryBody mass index (BMI) is a good indicator of nutritional status in a population. In underdeveloped countries like Bangladesh, this indicator provides a method that can assist intervention to help eradicate many preventable diseases. This study aimed to report on changes in the BMI of married Bangladeshi women who were born in the past three decades and its association with socio-demographic factors. Data for 10,115 married and currently non-pregnant Bangladeshi women were extracted from the 2007 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS). The age range of the sample was 15–49 years. The mean BMI was 20.85±3.66 kg/m2, and a decreasing tendency in BMI was found among birth year cohorts from 1972 to 1992. It was found that the proportion of underweight females has been increasing in those born during the last 20 years of the study period (1972 to 1992). Body mass index increased with increasing age, education level of the woman and her husband, wealth index, age at first marriage and age at first delivery, and decreased with increasing number of ever-born children. Lower BMI was especially pronounced among women who were living in rural areas, non-Muslims, employed women, women not living with their husbands (separated) or those who had delivered at home or non-Caesarean delivery.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Adolescent
Cross-sectional study
Population
Nutritional Status
Developing country
Islam
Statistics, Nonparametric
Body Mass Index
Young Adult
Confidence Intervals
Humans
Medicine
Obesity
Marriage
education
Poverty
Birth Year
Demography
Analysis of Variance
Bangladesh
education.field_of_study
business.industry
Age at first marriage
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
General Social Sciences
Middle Aged
Hinduism
Cross-Sectional Studies
Socioeconomic Factors
Linear Models
Women's Health
Female
Underweight
medicine.symptom
Rural area
business
Body mass index
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14697599 and 00219320
- Volume :
- 44
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Biosocial Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6a41a95f1011e471a793e4c6a2489fcb