Central obesity is a burden even in normal weight adolescents of a non-metropolitan Indian City: A case for alarm and action for prevention and control

Alarmingly, this prevalence is also comparable to that in some other developed countries like Italy (29%),[ 18 ] and higher than that of Spanish adolescents (9.6%).[ 19 ] In a study of Brazil, prevalence of CO was 32.7% (girls = 36.3%, boys = 28.4%).[ 20 ] It harbingers a worrying trend as obesity is not only confined to larger metro cities but has even percolated into non-metropolitan cities.[ 21 ] It is notable that prevalence of CO was found to be higher than generalized obesity in our study (28.5% vs 14.6%) and more than 1/4 th of normal weight adolescents in our study had CO.

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