Prevalence of obesity in children aged 6-12 years in Greece: nutritional behaviour and physical activity
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Prevalence of obesity in children aged 6-12 years in Greece: nutritional behaviour and physical activity
INTRODUCTION During the last two decades, obesity has proved to be one of the most important problems of public health, and it is considerably more frequent in developed countries, not only in adults, but in children, too. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children. MATERIAL AND METHODS Two thousand three hundred and seventy-four pupils in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Medical Science
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1734-1922
DOI: 10.5114/aoms.2012.31296