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Weight management among school-aged children and adolescents: a quantitative assessment in a Ghanaian municipality

BACKGROUND: Childhood and adolescent overweight, obesity and underweight have become an issue of grave concern to both the developed and developing countries in context of global burden of non-communicable diseases. Unhealthy weight status is a significant public health issue for developing countrie...

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Autores principales:	Gyamfi, Daniel, Obirikorang, Christian, Acheampong, Emmanuel, Asamoah, Evans Adu, Sampong, Bernard Berko, Batu, Emmanuella Nsenbah, Anto, Enoch Odame
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2019
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813048/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31651289 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-019-1772-4

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