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Socio-Economic and Demographic Influences on Body Mass Index and Thinness among Rural Tribal Adolescent Boys of Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
2020
Haya The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences
Adolescent is a transitional phase between childhood and adulthood characterized by marked acceleration in growth. Undernutrition is one of the major problems especially among the tribal adolescent boys and it has been least studied. Hence, the objective of the present study was to evaluate the association of socio-economic and demographic aspects with BMI and prevalence of thinness (low BMI for age) among the tribal adolescent boys. This cross-sectional study was conducted among 370 tribal
doi:10.36348/sjls.2020.v05i09.004
fatcat:42fjfmpllrdmvltife665shcpi