Overweight among children under five years of age in municipalities of the semiarid region

OBJECTIVE: To measure the prevalence and to identify factors associated with overweight among children under five years old living in two municipalities in the semiarid region of Piauí, Brazil. METHODS: Previously trained interviewers visited all of the households in these municipalities and ap...

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Main Authors: Isabel Nunes Oppitz, Juraci Almeida Cesar, Nelson Arns Neumann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva 2014-12-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-790X2014000400860&lng=en&tlng=en