Open AccessHigh prevalence of overall overweight/obesity and abdominal obesity amongst adolescents: An emerging nutritional problem in rural high schools in Limpopo Province, South Africa
Author(s) -
S. N. Debeila,
Perpetua Modjadji,
Sphiwe Madiba
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
african journal of primary health care and family medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.654
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 2071-2936
pISSN - 2071-2928
DOI - 10.4102/phcfm.v13i1.2596
Subject(s) - overweight , medicine , obesity , abdominal obesity , body mass index , waist , underweight , odds ratio , demography , anthropometry , nutrition transition , cross sectional study , logistic regression , environmental health , gerontology , pathology , sociology
As the gap in nutritional profiles between urban and rural rapidly reduces because of nutrition transition, rural adolescents are likely to engage in urban lifestyle behaviours.