Food insecurity is highly prevalent and predicts underweight but not overweight in adults and school children from Bogotá, Colombia

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 137, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2747-2755

  Isanaka, Sheila ^a   Mora Plazas, Mercedes ^b   Lopez Arana, Sandra ^b   Baylin, Ana ^c   Villamor, Eduardo ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIETARY INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PARENT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNDERWEIGHT; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 37149032842     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/137.12.2747     Document Type: Article

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