Background and objectives Malnutrition is a silent emergency and it is one of the most
common causes of morbidity and mortality among children and adolescent throughout the …

Introduction: Nutritional status during adolescence plays an important role in the human
lifecycle that influences growth and development and during this period nutrient needs are …

Background Adolescent weight status is a cumulative effect of health and nutritional
problems. Adolescent weight problems often go unnoticed as weight assessment is not …

Background: Pregnancy places adolescent females who, in general, are at risk for nutritional
problems at even greater risk. This study aimed to determine prevalence of under nutrition …

This study assessed gender and rural/urban differences in height and weight, and the
prevalence of stunting, underweight and overweight of school-going adolescents in south …

The purpose of this study was to provide information on anthropometry, body composition
and energy intake of adolescents South Eastern Nigeria. The participants were 190 …

Objectives: To assess the nutritional status and morbidity among the school going
adolescents in peri urban area Wardha. Materials and Methods: The present study was …

Prevalence of stunting and thinness among rural adolescents of Darjeeling district, West
Bengal, India ITALIAN JOURNAL OF PUB Page 1 54 FREE PAPERS Introduction Nutritional …

Purpose. To determine the nutritional status (underweight and overweight) among Meitei
children and adolescents. Methods. Cross‐sectional data on 854 subjects (384 boys and …

In this paper, we studied prepubescent boys (N= 75; 11.3 years±2 months) divided into three
groups: two experimental groups and age-paired, non-systematically physically engaged …