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Nutritional status of Indian adolescents (15-19 years) from National Family Health Surveys 3 and 4: Revised estimates using WHO 2007 Growth reference

BACKGROUND: The National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) in India apply adult cutoffs of nutritional status for the estimation of undernutrition/overweight in the 15–19 age group. The prevalence of thinness in boys and girls thus estimated is 58.1% and 46.8% in NFHS-3, and 45% and 42% in NFHS-4 respect...

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Autores principales: Bhargava, Madhavi, Bhargava, Anurag, Ghate, Sudeep D., Rao, R. Shyama Prasad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7307767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32569312
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234570