Baseline risk factor prevalence among adolescents aged 15–17 years old: findings from National Non-communicable Disease Monitoring Survey (NNMS) of India

Objective To generate national estimates of key non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors for adolescents (15–17 years) identified in the National NCD Monitoring Framework and, study the knowledge, attitudes and practices towards NCD risk behaviours among school-going adolescents.Design and settin...

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Main Authors: Anand Krishnan, Baridalyne Nongkynrih, K R Thankappan, Prabu Rajkumar, Suneela Garg, Muralidhar Tambe, Prashant Mathur, Harshal Ramesh Salve, Manoj Kumar Gupta, Ritvik Amarchand, Vaitheeswaran Kulothungan, Neeti Rustagi, Sravya Leburu, Himanshu Kumar Chaturvedi, Parasuraman Ganeshkumar, Vinay Urs K S, A Laxmaiah, Manjit Boruah, Binod Kumar Patro, Pankaja Ravi Raghav, P Sankara Sarma, Rinku Sharma, N Arlappa, Tulika Goswami Mahanta, Pranab Jyoti Bhuyan, Rajnish P Joshi, Abhijit Pakhare, Abhiruchi Galhotra, Binod Kumar Behera, Roshan K Topno, Atulkumar V Trivedi, Sonia Gupta, Sangita Chandrakant Shelke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/6/e044066.full