Overweight and obesity among early adolescent school girls in urban area of West Bengal, India: Prevalence assessment using different reference standards

International Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1070-1074

  Maiti, Soumyajit ^a,b   De, Debasis ^a   Ali, Kazi Monjur ^a   Bera, Tushar Kanti ^a   Ghosh, Debidas ^a,b   Paul, Shyamapada ^a,b  

^a VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Rural Research Institute of Physiology and Applied Nutrition   (India)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Early adolescent; Obesity; Overweight; School girl; West Bengal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE DATABASE; REMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84883895719     PISSN: 20087802     EISSN: 20088213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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