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Table 2 Double burden of malnutrition characterization in a sample of adults from rural South India

From: Socio-demographic patterning of the individual-level double burden of malnutrition in a rural population in South India: a cross-sectional study

Double burden characterization

Men

n

%

Women

n

%

p-value

Anemia and overweight or obese

44

13.1

94

23.1

< 0.001

Anemia and pre-diabetes

8

2.4

25

6.2

0.01

Anemia and diabetes

21

6.3

24

5.9

0.84

Anemia and hypertension

40

12.0

67

16.6

0.07

Stunted and overweight

43

12.6

54

13.3

0.79

Stunted and pre-diabetes

7

2.1

15

3.7

0.19

Stunted and diabetes

19

5.6

16

3.9

0.29

Stunted and hypertension

32

9.5

40

9.9

0.85

  1. p-values are for differences in proportions between sexes using Pearson chi-squared test