Overweight and obesity among secondary school children in Central Italy
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in European Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 15 (7) , 649-654
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1007675005395
Abstract
Childhood and adolescent obesity prevalence rates have steadily increased in industrialised countries in the last 20 years. Current rates of obesity range between 6 and 30%. Several studies showed...Keywords
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