Determinants of overweight and obesity in affluent adolescent in Surat city, South Gujarat region, India

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 296-300

  Goyal, Jagdish P ^a   Kumar, Nagendra ^a   Parmar, Indira ^a   Shah, Vijay B ^a   Patel, Bharat ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Adolescent; India; obesity; risk factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856060550     PISSN: 09700218     EISSN: 19983581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.91418     Document Type: Article

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