Secular trends in prevalence of overweight and obesity from 2006 to 2009 in Urban Asian Indian adolescents aged 14-17 years

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Gupta, Deepak Kumar ^a,b   Shah, Priyali ^a,b   Misra, Anoop ^a,b,c   Bharadwaj, Swati ^a,b   Gulati, Seema ^a,b   Gupta, Nidhi ^a,b,e   Sharma, Rekha ^a,b   Pandey, Ravindra M ^d   Goel, Kashish ^a,b,f  

^a Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation N DOC   (India)

^b Diabetes Foundation India New Delhi   (India)

^c FORTIS HOSPITAL   (India)

^d ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^e CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD HEALTH; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREND STUDY; UNDERWEIGHT; URBAN POPULATION; ASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; INDIA; SCHOOL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; SCHOOLS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79952030439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017221     Document Type: Article

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