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In rural Gambia, do adolescents have increased nutritional vulnerability compared with adults?

Adolescents may be particularly susceptible to malnutrition owing to the energy and nutrient costs of the pubertal growth spurt. Here, our aim is to compare differences in selected markers of nutritional status between adolescents and adults in rural Gambia. The Keneba Biobank collects cross‐section...

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Autores principales: Schoenbuchner, Simon M., Moore, Sophie E., Johnson, William, Ngum, Mohammed, Sonko, Bakary, Prentice, Ann, Prentice, Andrew M., Ward, Kate A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5901020/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13587