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Prevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural Senegal: new insight on the epidemiological transition in West Africa

BACKGROUND: The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of obesity in Dakar and in Tessekere, a rural municipality in northern Senegal, and to compare ideal body size between these populations. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was carried out in 2015 on a representative sample of 1 0...

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Autores principales: Macia, Enguerran, Cohen, Emmanuel, Boetsch, Gilles, Boetsch, Lamine, Duboz, Priscilla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Clinics Cardive Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5730727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29083431
http://dx.doi.org/10.5830/CVJA-2017-034