The high burden of obesity and abdominal obesity in urban Indian schoolchildren: A multicentric study of 38,296 children

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 203-211

  Misra, Anoop ^a,b,c   Shah, Priyali ^b,c   Goel, Kashish ^b,c,j   Hazra, Daya Kishore ^e   Gupta, Rajeev ^a   Seth, Payal ^f   Tallikoti, Pooja ^g   Mohan, Indu ^a   Bhargava, Rooma ^a   Bajaj, Sarita ⁱ   Madan, Jagmeet ^h   Gulati, Seema ^b,c   Bhardwaj, Swati ^b,c   Sharma, Rekha ^b,c   Gupta, Nidhi ^b,c,k   Pandey, Ravindra Mohan ^d  

^a FORTIS HOSPITAL   (India)

^b National Diabetes Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation (N DOC)   (Iran)

^c Diabetes Foundation (India)   (India)

^d ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^e Government Medical College   (India)

^f Agra Diabetes Forum   (India)

^g UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

^h SVT College of Home Science   (India)

ⁱ MLN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

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

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

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Author keywords

Childhood obesity; India; Urban schoolchildren

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 79960247650     PISSN: 02506807     EISSN: 14219697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000329431     Document Type: Article

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