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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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Nutritional Status of Adolescent Girls from Rural Communities of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2009 Background: Addressing the nutritional needs of adolescents could be an important step towards breaking the vicious cycle of intergenerational malnutrition. Objective: Assess nutritional status of rural adolescent girls. Design: Cross-sectional. Methods:
Girmay, G. +7 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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Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 1998 Latex, 10 pages plus 6 ps/eps ...
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Impact of body mass index on overall survival after surgery for colorectal cancer [PDF]
Korean Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2016 Purpose The studies on the impact of obesity on survival for colorectal cancer (CRC) in Korea are still insufficient. The aim of this study is to evaluate body mass index (BMI) as a prognostic factor of CRC.
Sang Wook Park +6 more
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