Nutritional status of semi-urban Nigerian school children using the 2007 WHO reference population;L'état nutritionnel de la semi-urbaines enfants d'âge scolaire du Nigeria en utilisant la population de référence 2007 de l'OMS

West African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 331-336

  Fetuga, M B ^a   Ogunlesi, T A ^a   Adekanmbi, A F ^a   Alabi, A D ^a  

^a OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Malnutrition; Nigeria; Overweight; School children; Stunting; Underweight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NIGERIA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SAMPLING; SCHOOL CHILD; STUNTING; UNDERWEIGHT; URBAN AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NIGERIA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84862021923     PISSN: 0189160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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