Exercise and eating habits among urban adolescents: a cross-sectional study in Kolkata, India

• Main Authors: Soumitra Kumar (Author), Saumitra Ray (Author), Debabrata Roy (Author), Kajal Ganguly (Author), Sibananda Dutta (Author), Tanmay Mahapatra (Author), Sanchita Mahapatra (Author), Kinnori Gupta (Author), Kaushik Chakraborty (Author), Mrinal Kanti Das (Author), Santanu Guha (Author), Pradip K. Deb (Author), Amal K. Banerjee (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Unhealthy eating and lack of exercise during adolescence culminated into earlier onset and increasing burden of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) worldwide. Among urban Indian adolescents, prevalence of these risk factors of CVD seemed to be high, but data regarding...