Nutrition status of nulliparous married Indian women 15-24 years: Decadal trends, predictors and program implications

In India, 66% of 8 million married adolescents (~5.3 million) are nulliparous and likely to conceive soon. Among married young women aged 20-24 years about 9.1 million are nulliparous. This group remains relatively less reached in maternal nutrition programs. Current estimates of their nutritional s...

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Published in:PloS one 2019-08, Vol.14 (8), p.e0221125-e0221125
Main Authors: Sethi, Vani, Dinachandra, Konsam, Murira, Zivai, Gausman, Jewel, Bhanot, Arti, de Wagt, Arjan, Unisa, Sayeed, Bhatia, Salima, Baswal, Dinesh, Subramanian, S V
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent obesity
Adolescents
Adult
Age
Anthropometry
Asian Continental Ancestry Group
Biology and Life Sciences
Body mass
Body Mass Index
Body size
Body weight
Family planning
Family planning services
Female
Food and nutrition
Health surveys
Human nutrition
Humans
Malnutrition
Marriage
Married women
Medicine and Health Sciences
Nutrition
Nutritional status
Nutritional Status - physiology
Obesity
Obesity - epidemiology
Overweight
Overweight - epidemiology
Parity
Parity - physiology
People and Places
Pregnancy
Regression analysis
Rural Population
Social services
Target groups
Teenagers
Tetanus toxoid
Thinness - epidemiology
Trends
Womens health
Young Adult
Young women
Youth
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Summary:In India, 66% of 8 million married adolescents (~5.3 million) are nulliparous and likely to conceive soon. Among married young women aged 20-24 years about 9.1 million are nulliparous. This group remains relatively less reached in maternal nutrition programs. Current estimates of their nutritional status and predictors of body mass index (BMI) are unavailable. Thinness (BMI
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0221125