Assessing the nutritional status of Palestinian adolescents from East Jerusalem: A school-based study 2002-03

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-58

  Jildeh, Christine ^a,b   Papandreou, Christopher ^b   Mourad, Tayser Abu ^b,c   Hatzis, Christos ^b   Kafatos, Anthony ^b   Qasrawi, Radwan ^a   Philalithis, Anastas ^b   Abdeen, Ziad ^a  

^a AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c Health Management Information System Ministry of Health   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Anemia; Dietary intake; East Jerusalem; Nutritional status

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; HEMOGLOBIN; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; PROTEIN; SATURATED FATTY ACID; TRACE ELEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARAB; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROTEIN INTAKE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; UNDERWEIGHT;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARABS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; MIDDLE EAST; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS; THINNESS;

EID: 79251625984     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmq042     Document Type: Article

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