Secular Trends in Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity from 2006 to 2009 in Urban Asian Indian Adolescents Aged 14-17 Years

The present study examines the secular trends in prevalence of overweight and obesity among urban Asian Indian adolescents in New Delhi (North India). The data were derived from cross-sectional sampling of children, 3493 in year 2006 and 4908 in year 2009, aged 14-17 years studying in privately-fund...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 6; no. 2; p. e17221
Main Authors:	Gupta, Deepak Kumar, Shah, Priyali, Misra, Anoop, Bharadwaj, Swati, Gulati, Seema, Gupta, Nidhi, Sharma, Rekha, Pandey, Ravindra M., Goel, Kashish
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 23.02.2011 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Adolescent Adolescents Asian People - ethnology Asian People - statistics & numerical data Body mass Body Mass Index Body size Body weight Children Cross-Sectional Studies Elementary school students Female Government finance Health Surveys Humans India - epidemiology India - ethnology Male Males Medicine Mortality Obesity Obesity - epidemiology Overweight Overweight - epidemiology Prevalence Schools Schools - statistics & numerical data Socioeconomics Studies Teenagers Trends Type 2 diabetes Underweight Urban Population - statistics & numerical data Urban Population - trends Youth India United States > US Detroit Michigan Michigan
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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