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Household Food Insecurity Is Not Associated with BMI for Age or Weight for Height among Brazilian Children Aged 0–60 Months

We examined the association between Household Food Insecurity (HFI), weight for height z-score (WHZ) and Body Mass Index for age z-score (BMI-Z) in a representative sample of children 0–60 months of age (n = 3,433) in five Brazilian geographical regions. Data were derived from the 2006–07 Brazilian...

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Autores principales: Kac, Gilberto, Schlüssel, Michael M., Pérez-Escamilla, Rafael, Velásquez-Melendez, Gustavo, da Silva, Antônio Augusto Moura
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3448695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23029220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045747