Overnutrition and Risk of Diabetes: A Micro Data Analysis for India

Shivani Gupta () and Sangeeta Bansal
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Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Discussion Papers from Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Abstract: Diabetes prevalence has escalated in India during the recent decades. The recent nutritional transition brought about by the rapid emergence of overnutrition may have a relationship with the growing diabetes problem in India. This paper examines the causal effect of an increase in body mass index on the likelihood of suffering from diabetes using an individual level data from National Family Health Survey for the year 2015-16. The study uses two alternative indicators for measuring diabetes – self-reported diabetes status and blood glucose levels (ordinal measure). The novel contribution of the study is that it takes into account the role played by unobserved genetic and other related factors in the determination of the relationship between body mass index and diabetes status of an individual by instrumenting individual’s body mass index with a non-biologically related household member’s body mass index. The results show that the likelihood of being diabetic is three times among the overweight and obese individuals as compared to the non-overweight individuals.

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