Abstract:Obesity is a disease which affects around 650 million people worldwide and more than 4.5 million in Ecuador. These figures are alarming because it is recognized as a significant factor in the non-communicable chronic diseases, which appear in all age groups. This work focusses on finding the relations between obesity depicted by Body Mass Index (BMI) and other variables such as gender, province, age group and geographic area for adults between 19 and 59 years old. To achieve this purpose, Logistic and Poisson … Show more
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