Among men and women we see a decreasing trend in overweight and obesity with increasing age, although there is evidence of increasing abdominal obesity in both sexes with increasing age.
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Distribution of diabetes, hypertension and non-communicable disease risk factors among adults in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional survey.
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Based on this cut-off, our data show very high levels of inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption across all ages and wealth groups and men and women, although there is an apparent trend in increasing inadequate intake with age.
There is no evidence of an association between wealth quintile and prehypertension among women, but an increasing trend in hypertension with increasing wealth is observed, with women in the two least poor quintiles being 43% and 87% more likely to have hypertension compared with women in the poorest group, respectively.