Impact Of Educational Status of Parents on Nutritional Status of Adolescent Girls-A Cross Sectional Study

Background: Adolescent is a period where significant growth changes occur necessitating optimum nutritional requirement. During adolescence 20% of adult height attained and 50% of adult bone mass gained. Girls deposit twice as much body fat as boys at this time and boys double their lean body mass....

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Main Authors: Sujit K Singh, Gagan Garg, Sanjeev Davey, Santosh Kumar Raghav, Khursheed Muzammil, Jai Vir Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Medsci Publications 2014-09-01
Series:National Journal of Community Medicine
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Online Access:https://njcmindia.com/index.php/file/article/view/1384