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Parental Weight Perceptions: A Cause for Concern in the Prevention and Management of Childhood Obesity in the United Arab Emirates

Parental participation is a key factor in the prevention and management of childhood obesity, thus parental recognition of weight problems is essential. We estimated parental perceptions and their determinants in the Emirati population. We invited 1541 students (grade 1–12; 50% boys) and their paren...

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Autores principales: Aljunaibi, Abdulla, Abdulle, Abdishakur, Nagelkerke, Nico
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3608558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23555833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059923