Ranadip Chowdhury, Sunita Taneja, Neeta Dhabhai, Sarmila Mazumder, Ravi Prakash Upadhyay, Sitanshi Sharma, Ananya Tupaki-Sreepurna, Rupali Dewan, Pratima Mittal, Harish Chellani, Rajiv Bahl, Maharaj Kishan Bhan, Nita Bhandari
BACKGROUND: There is a growing interest in the life course approach for the prevention, early detection and subsequent management of morbidity in women of reproductive age to ensure optimal health and nutrition when they enter pregnancy. Reliable estimates of such morbidities are lacking. We report the prevalence of health or nutrition-related morbidities, specifically, anemia, undernutrition, overweight and obesity, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) or reproductive tract infections (RTIs), diabetes or prediabetes, hypothyroidism, hypertension, and depressive symptoms, during the preconception period among women aged 18 to 30 years...
2020: PloS One