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Association between school-level attributes and weight status of Ghanaian primary school children
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the impact of the school environmental context on the emerging trend of childhood obesity in Africa. We examined the association of the schools’ contextual factors with body mass index (BMI), abdominal obesity and overweight (including obesity) in urban Ghana. METHO...
Autores principales: | Adom, Theodosia, Kengne, André Pascal, De Villiers, Anniza, Puoane, Thandi |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521351/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31092232 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6937-4 |
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