Table 1.

Prevalence of hypertension in the adult respondents of the fourth round of National Family Health Survey- India (2015-16) as per their BMI

Body Mass Index	HTN in men			HTN in women
	Normal Hyper. %	Pre-Hyper. %	HTN %	Normal Hyper. %	Pre-Hyper. %	HTN %
Underweight	78.87	39.82	9.37	86.26	27.85	7.65
Normal BMI	65.65	56.07	13.85	80.04	37.15	9.81
Overweight	53.06	69.4	21.29	71.21	48.23	15.01
Obese	43.87	75.31	32.27	62.72	57.18	23.68
Total	60.43	59.99	18.68	75.77	41.57	13.49