The relationships between selected anthropometric and socio-economic data in schoolchildren from different social strata in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Relações entre dados antropométricos e sócio-econômicos em escolares de diversas classes sociais, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

• Main Authors: Rainer Gross (Author), Fernão Dias de Lima (Author), Cristina Jesus de Freitas (Author), Ursula Gross (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 1990-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The nutritional status according to anthropometric data was assessed in 756 schoolchildren from 5 low-income state schools and in one private school in the same part of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The prevalence of stunting and wasting (cut-off point: <90% ht/age and <80% wt/ht) ranged in the publ...