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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...
Autores principales: | Debeila, Sego, Modjadji, Perpetua, Madiba, Sphiwe |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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