The prevalence of underweight, overweight, obesity and associated risk factors among school-going adolescents in seven African countries

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Manyanga, Taru ^a   El Sayed, Hesham ^b   Doku, David Teye ^c   Randall, Jason R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Obesity; Overweight; Prevalence and risk factors; Underweight

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; AFRICA; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL CLASS; THINNESS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84906964625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-887     Document Type: Article

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