摘要："Background: Every year at least 2.8 million adults die due to overweight or obesity. Most of the world's popu-lation lives in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. In infor-mal settlements like slums, NCDs are at particular risk of going unde-tected by formal health registries until presentation in a late stage of disease or death. NCDs among women have major health challeng-es. Objectives: To assess prevalence, determine factors responsible for Obesity. Methods: This is a cross sectional study conducted among 405 slum women of age 35 years or more in Rajkot city. Interview and anthro-pometric measurements like Height and weight were measured for all participants. Results: Total 93 (22.96%) women were diagnosed to be obese and 119 (29.38%) women were pre obese in present study. There was a statisti-cally significant association be-tween socio-economic classification (p=0.050), eating fat rich diet (p=0.004), walking (p=0.000), stress (p=0.033), parental history (p=0.000), sibling history (p=0.002) and obesity. Conclusions: Studied population has high prevalence of overweight and Obesity.".
