Rapidly rising rates of overweight and obesity coupled with persistently high rates of undernutrition among school aged children in an urban Indo-Asian population: authors’ response

[...]central obesity has been shown to be associated with insulin resistance and clustering of cardiovascular risk factors in youth, especially of Indo-Asian descent. 9 Unfortunately, sound nutritional assessment of school aged children has traditionally been neglected in most surveys in Pakistan and the surrounding region. 10 The evidence for a steep rise in childhood obesity in urban Pakistan supports our contention that the common agenda should be to address all forms of nutritional imbalance in children and not merely undernutrition.