Gender inequalities in excess adiposity and anaemia combine in a large double burden of malnutrition gap detrimental to women in an urban area in North Africa

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1428-1437

  Traissac, Pierre ^a   El Ati, Jalila ^b   Gartner, Agnès ^a   Ben Gharbia, Houda ^b   Delpeuch, Francis ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Institut National de Nutrition Tunis   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Double burden of malnutrition; Gender; Middle East and North Africa; Overweight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTOR; TUNISIA; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADIPOSITY; ADULT; ANEMIA; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; TUNISIA; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84963994995     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980016000689     Document Type: Article

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