Eating habits and body-weights of students of the University of Belgrade, Serbia: A cross-sectional study

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 330-333

  Gazibara, Tatjana ^a   Kisic Tepavcevic, Darija B ^a   Popovic, Aleksandra ^b   Pekmezovic, Tatjana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Nutritional status; Prevalence; Serbia; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885043058     PISSN: 16060997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3329/jhpn.v31i3.16824     Document Type: Article

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