High prevalence of overweight among adolescents in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nguyen, Phuong Van Ngoc ^a   Hong, Tang Kim ^a   Hoang, Truong ^a   Nguyen, Dung The ^a   Robert, Annie R ^b,c  

^a PHAM NGOC THACH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c Department of Defense   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adolescent overweight; Ho Chi Minh City; IOTF definition; Obesity; Prevalence; Socioeconomic; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; VIETNAM;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873711340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-141     Document Type: Article

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