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High prevalence of overall overweight/obesity and abdominal obesity amongst adolescents: An emerging nutritional problem in rural high schools in Limpopo Province, South Africa

BACKGROUND: As the gap in nutritional profiles between urban and rural rapidly reduces because of nutrition transition, rural adolescents are likely to engage in urban lifestyle behaviours. AIM: The study determined the prevalence of overweight/obesity amongst adolescents in rural high schools and t...

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Autores principales: Debeila, Sego, Modjadji, Perpetua, Madiba, Sphiwe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AOSIS 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8182488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34082550
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v13i1.2596