Overweight and obesity in public schools' adolescents from Fortaleza: an exploratory study

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Marta Maria Coelho Damasceno 1 (مؤلف), Ana Roberta Vilarouca da Silva 2 (مؤلف), Hérica Cristina Alves de Vasconcelos 3 (مؤلف), Márcio Flávio Moura de Araújo 4 (مؤلف), Paulo César Almeida 5 (مؤلف), Roberto Wagner Júnior Freire de Freitas 6 (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Escola de Enfermagem Aurora de Afonso Costa, 2007-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Nowadays overweight is a condition that prepares adolescents to several chronical diseases in the future. Thus, the objective was to find out overweight and obesity cases in public schools' adolescents from Fortaleza. 720 students between 14 and 19 years of age were investigated in the months o...