Gender and rural-urban differences in the nutritional status of in-school adolescents in south-western Nigeria

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 653-676

  Omigbodun, Olayinka O ^a   Adediran, Kofoworola I ^a   Akinyemi, Joshua O ^a   Omigbodun, Akinyinka O ^a   Adedokun, Babatunde O ^a   Esan, Oluyomi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGERIA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STUDENT; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGERIA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957252572     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: 14697599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932010000234     Document Type: Article

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