Rising Burden of Obesity in Asia

Table 2

Effects of body weight on prevalence and clustering of cardiovascular risk factors in teenagers in India. The risk factors considered were: blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose, HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides and waist circumference [46].

Body Weight	$n$	Prevalence of risk factors
		None (%)	Any one (%)	Any two (%)	Two or more (%)
Total	2640	32.2	44.7	20.6	2.4
Normal weight	2245	35.2	44.8	18.7	1.3
Overweight	394	15.0*	44.4	31.7*	8.9*

* $P<.002$ versus normal weight.