Open AccessObesity: does it occur in African children in a rural community in South Africa?
Author(s) -
Kotsedi Daniel Monyeki,
Frank J. van Lenthe,
Nelia P. Steyn
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/28.2.287
Subject(s) - medicine , overweight , percentile , body mass index , obesity , demography , skinfold thickness , trunk , biology , ecology , statistics , mathematics , sociology
Total body fatness and a centripetal fat patterning are recognized as risk indicators of cardiovascular disease in adulthood. In this study, the development of these risk factors in rural South African children during the preschool years and first years of formal schooling is explored.
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