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Overweight and obesity prevalence and body mass index trends in Indian children [1]

The objective of the study was to estimate prevalence of overweight and obesity in apparently healthy children from five zones of India in the age group of 2 to 17 years and to examine trends in body mass index (BMI) during the last two decades with respect to published growth data.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2011
V. V. Khadilkar [2], A. V. Khadilkar [3], T. J. Cole & et al [4]
International Journal of Pediatric Obesity [5]
6
2
216-224
Tags:
Obesity [6], Child Health [7], India [8], Non Communicable Diseases [9], Diabetes [10], Statistics [11]
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