The double burden of malnutrition among adults in India: evidence from the National Family Health Survey-4 (2015-16) [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2019 OBJECTIVES India still faces the burden of undernutrition and communicable diseases, and the prevalence of overweight/obesity is steadily increasing. The discourse regarding the dual burden of underweight and overweight/obesity has not yet been widely ...
Mili Dutta +3 more
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BMJ Open, 2023 Objectives To determine the prevalence of stunting and thinness and associated factors among adolescents attending public schools in Lideta subcity, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 2021.Design Cross-sectional.Setting Public schools in Lideta subcity, Addis ...
Esmael Ali Muhammad +3 more
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Prevalence and socioeconomic correlates of growth impairment among Saudi children and adolescents
The Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022 Background: Saudi Arabia has witnessed economic prosperity leading to changes in diet and lifestyle. Concurrent with these changes, the prevalence rates of overweight and obesity are rising.
Abdulrahman Al-Hussaini +5 more
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Nutrition Journal, 2011 Background Thinness in children and adolescents is largely under studied, a contrast with abundant literature on under-nutrition in infants and on overweight in children and adolescents.
Madeleine George +4 more
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Double burden of malnutrition among urban Bengalee adolescent boys in Midnapore, West Bengal, India [PDF]
, 2012 Malnutrition is an important public health problem worldwide. Therefore a study was undertaken to assess the prevalence of adolescent thinness, overweight and obesity in Midnapore town, West Bengal, India.
D Mahalanabis +4 more
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Minimal thinness for subordinate Brownian motion in half space [PDF]
, 2011 We study minimal thinness in the half-space $H:=\{x=(\wt{x}, x_d):\, \wt{x}\in \R^{d-1}, x_d>0\}$ for a large class of rotationally invariant L\'evy processes, including symmetric stable processes and sums of Brownian motion and independent stable ...
Kim, Panki +2 more
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Disadvantaged children at greater relative risk of thinness (as well as obesity): a secondary data analysis of the England National Child Measurement Programme and the UK Millennium Cohort Study [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction: Young children living in more disadvantaged socio-economic circumstances (SECs) are at an increased risk of overweight and obesity. However, there is scant research examining the prevalence and social distribution of thinness in early ...
Law, Catherine +2 more
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BMC Pediatrics, 2020 Background Sibship size and structure have a significant association with overweight and obesity in children, but the relationship with thinness has not been fully studied and understood, especially in Asia.
Tingting Yu +11 more
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Growth of attraction rates for iterates of a superattracting germ in dimension two [PDF]
, 2013 We study the sequence of attraction rates of iterates of a dominant superattracting holomorphic fixed point germ f:(C^2,0)->(C^2,0). By using valuative techniques similar to those developed by Favre-Jonsson, we show that this sequence eventually ...
Gignac, William, Ruggiero, Matteo
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A Self-determination Theory Approach to the Study of Body Image Concerns, Self-presentation and Self-perceptions in a Sample of Aerobic Instructors [PDF]
, 2007 This study examined motivational predictors of body image concerns, self-presentation and self-perceptions using Self-determination Theory as a guiding framework. Aerobic instructors (N = 149) completed questionnaires measuring general need satisfaction,
Ntoumanis, Nikos +1 more
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