Trends of underweight, overweight, and obesity in Brazilian children and adolescents
Objective: To describe and analyze the trends of occurrence of underweight, overweight, and obesity in schoolchildren. Methods: This was a longitudinal study of trends conducted in a voluntary sample of Brazilian children and adolescents. The sample was grouped by year of collection (period I: 2005...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2013-09-01
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Series: | Jornal de Pediatria |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021755713001277 |