Prevalence of overweight / obesity among school children in Karnataka, South India

Worldwide, non-communicable diseases (NCD) represent 43% of the burden of disease and are expected to be responsible for 60% of the disease burden and 73% of all deaths by 2020.Obesity in children and adolescents is gradually becoming a major public health problem in many developing countries, inclu...

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Main Author: Baby S Nayak (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2011.
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