Nutritional status of Tunisian adolescents: associated gender, environmental and socio-economic factors
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Nutritional status of Tunisian adolescents: associated gender, environmental and socio-economic factors.
OBJECTIVE To assess the nutritional status of Tunisian adolescents and associated factors. DESIGN A cross-sectional study based on a national stratified random cluster sample. SUBJECTS AND METHODS In all, 1,295 boys and 1,577 girls aged 15-19 years, of whom 28.4 % had already left school. Socio-economic characteristics of the parents, anthropometric measurements, food behaviours and physica...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Nutrition
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1368-9800,1475-2727
DOI: 10.1017/s1368980008002693