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Francis Lwanga, Barbara Eva Kirunda and Christopher Garimoi Orach
A cross-sectional study to assess the prevalence of intestinal helminth infections and nutritional status of primary school children was conducted in the Wakiso district in Central Uganda. A total of 432 primary school children aged 6?14 years were rando...
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Tineke De Vriendt, Inge Huybrechts, Charlene Ottevaere, Inge Van Trimpont and Stefaan De Henauw
This paper investigated the validity of self-reported height and weight of adolescents for the diagnosis of underweight, overweight and obesity and the influence of weighing behaviour on the accuracy. A total of 982 adolescents reported their height, wei...
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Ángel Denche-Zamorano, Diana Salas-Gómez, Jorge Carlos-Vivas, Sabina Barrios-Fernandez, Eugenio Merellano-Navarro, Daniel Collado-Mateo, Pedro R. Olivares and José Carmelo Adsuar
Population growth and physical inactivity have led to health and social consequences derived from chronic diseases and decreased quality of life in the elderly. Some research suggests that overweight in older people may not be associated with the negativ...
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Peng Nie, Anu Rammohan, Wencke Gwozdz and Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Background: Improvements in child health are a key indicator of progress towards the third goal of the United Nations? Sustainable Development Goals. Poor nutritional outcomes of Indian children are occurring in the context of high economic growth rates....
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Knut Anton Mork, Hanna Marisela Eap and Magnus Eskedal Haraldsen
We consider the portfolio choice of a government with a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) when government revenues depend on exhaustible resources, such as oil and gas. The question is whether the SWF portfolio should underweight shares in the resource industr...
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Marvin So, Yianni A. Ellenikiotis, Hannah M. Husby, Cecilia Leonor Paz, Brittany Seymour and Karen Sokal-Gutierrez
Malnutrition and dental caries in early childhood remain persistent and intertwined global health challenges, particularly for indigenous and geographically-remote populations. To examine the prevalence and associations between early childhood dental car...
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Gabriele Mascherini, Cristian Petri, Elena Ermini, Vittorio Bini, Piergiuseppe Calà, Giorgio Galanti and Pietro Amedeo Modesti
The aim of the study is to establish a simple and low-cost method that, associated with Body Mass Index (BMI), differentiates overweight conditions due to a prevalence of lean mass compared to an excess of fat mass during the evaluation of young athletes...
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Faustin Habyarimana, Temesgen Zewotir and Shaun Ramroop
Childhood anemia is among the most significant health problems faced by public health departments in developing countries. This study aims at assessing the determinants and possible spatial effects associated with childhood anemia in Rwanda. The 2014/201...
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Michael L. Wilson, Bharathi Viswanathan, Valentin Rousson and Pascal Bovet
We investigated the relationship between being bullied and measured body weight and perceived body weight among adolescents of a middle-income sub Saharan African country. Our data originated from the Global School-based Health Survey, which targets adol...
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Erika B. A. F. Thomaz, Maria Cristina T. Cangussu, Antônio Augusto M. da Silva and Ana Marlúcia O. Assis
Evidence suggests that energy-protein malnutrition is associated with impaired growth and development of facial bones. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between nutritional status and reduced space for dental eruption (crowdi...
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