{
  "abstract": "Introduction Underweight, overweight/obesity and anaemia are prevalent among reproductive-age women in India, but factors affecting their intra-individual co-occurrence are unclear. Our objectives were to examine the prevalence, spatial distribution and risk factors for concurrent ‘double burdens’ of anaemia with underweight or overweight/obesity within the same individual.Methods Using data from reproductive age women (15–49 years) in the Indian National Family Health Surveys 2005–2006, 2015–2016 and 2019–2021, we calculated the national prevalence of the intra-individual double burdens of malnutrition and mapped their district-level distributions. We examined the association of 28 potential risk factors with anaemia, underweight, overweight/obesity and their co-occurrence using multilevel logistic regression and calculated area under the curve (AUC) statistics.Results The underweight-anaemia double burden affected 11%, and overweight/obesity-anaemia double burden affected 21% of women in 2019–2021. Overweight/obesity-anaemia was prevalent in northern, southern and coastal districts, while underweight-anaemia was most prevalent in central India. For underweight-anaemia, important risk factors were tobacco consumption, younger age, lower education, lower household wealth, scheduled tribe background, larger household size, region and living in a high malaria transmission area. For overweight/obesity-anaemia, risk factors included older age, being educated, higher household wealth, region and living in an area with more hot days than average in recent years. AUC statistics showed a significant role of environmental factors.Conclusions The double burdens present significant public health challenges for India. The spatial and sociodemographic distinctness of the burdens suggests the possibility of evidence-informed targeting of programmes.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Hannah Gardner"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal"
      ],
      "name": "Vani Sethi"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Tuck Seng Cheng"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Manisha Nair"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Risk factors for the intra-individual double burdens of malnutrition among reproductive-age women in India: a secondary analysis of three rounds of the National Family and Health Survey",
  "uid": "1248a968-2d01-5100-9083-3765f5124242"
}