High Prevalence of Obesity Among Inner-City Adolescent Boys in the Bronx, New York: Forgetting Our Boys
We examined sex differences in overweight and obesity in a sample of 1,619 inner-city adolescents. Participants were enrolled from 11 public schools in the Bronx, New York. The prevalence of overweight and obesity was 21.7% and 22.5%, respectively; prevalence of obesity was significantly higher amon...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044034/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21159235 |