A study on nutritional status of school-going adolescents in Aligarh, India
| العنوان: | A study on nutritional status of school-going adolescents in Aligarh, India |
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| المؤلفون: | Zulfia Khan, Nafis Faizi, Suhail A Azmi, Najam Khalique, Iqbal M Khan, Ali Amir |
| المصدر: | Tropical Doctor. 47:212-216 |
| بيانات النشر: | SAGE Publications, 2016. |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, 0301 basic medicine, Gerontology, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Double burden, Cross-sectional study, Adolescent Health, India, Mothers, Nutritional Status, Overweight, Standard score, 03 medical and health sciences, Thinness, Surveys and Questionnaires, Prevalence, medicine, Humans, Obesity, 030109 nutrition & dietetics, business.industry, Public health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, medicine.disease, Malnutrition, Cross-Sectional Studies, Infectious Diseases, Socioeconomic Factors, Female, medicine.symptom, business, Demography, Adolescent health |
| الوصف: | Adolescence is a highly vulnerable period for malnutrition. This study was based on a Global School Health Survey methodology in the 13–15-year age group; employing WHO AnthroPlus to evaluate the nutritional status, find the prevalence of both extremes of malnutrition, compare with the growth curves and to find its sociodemographic correlates. A total of 1456 students were sampled and the mean BMI for age Z score was found to be −0.11. The prevalence of overweight and obese were 11.95% and 2.27%, respectively, whereas 2.75% suffered from thinness, defined as BMI for age |
| تدمد: | 1758-1133 0049-4755 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::ebecefde6239fb290082ee88bff03b13 https://doi.org/10.1177/0049475516668985 |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....ebecefde6239fb290082ee88bff03b13 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 17581133 00494755 |
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