Parameters of nutrition in school girls in southwestern Nigeria

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 198-202

  Fawole, A O ^a   Obisesan, K A ^a   Ojengbede, O A ^a   Babarinsa, I A ^a   Cole, A H ^b   Fawole, O I ^a   Arowojolu, A O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NIGERIA; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; NIGERIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 26944455238     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/eamj.v82i4.9281     Document Type: Article

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