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Prevalence of Overweight/Obesity and Its Associated Factors among University Students from 22 Countries

Obesity among young people increases lifetime cardiovascular risk. This study assesses the prevalence of overweight/obesity and its associated factors among a random sample of university students from 22 universities in 22 low, middle income and emerging economy countries. This cross-sectional surve...

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Autores principales:	Peltzer, Karl, Pengpid, Supa, Samuels, T. Alafia, Özcan, Neslihan Keser, Mantilla, Carolina, Rahamefy, Onja H., Wong, Mee Lian, Gasparishvili, Alexander
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	MDPI 2014
Materias:	Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113885/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25050651 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110707425

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