Obesity may not only be linked to undesirable health outcomes but also to limitations in sexual life. The present paper … sample. Due to the small share of women in the sample, the analysis yields no reliable results specifically for females. …

The body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions … related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height … from care-givers. There are gender specific relationships between BMI and marital status, and after controlling for height …