Sedentary work and expanding waistlines: a cross-sectional study on occupational roles and abdominal obesity in India
High prevalence of abdominal obesity among both men and women implies an emerging health risk in India. The findings that contributed to associations between sedentary occupation and abdominal obesity may inform occupation-related health risks and development of interventions to limit daily sitting at work place which may reduce metabolic disease risk.
Authors
- Nishikant Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0502-9967)
- Sudheer Kumar Shukla (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4747-6992)
- Rituparna Sengupta
- Navin Singh
- R. P. Bajpai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0355-4714)
Institutions
- King George's Medical University (IN)
- Population Council Institute (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Public Health
- Published
- 2025-02-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-21956-5
- Citations
- 16
- Primary Topic
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 30.06