Overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, 2016 Halfway National Health and Nutrition Survey update

• Main Authors: Teresa Shamah-Levy (Author), Lucía Cuevas-Nasu (Author), Elsa Berenice Gaona-Pineda (Author), Luz María Gómez-Acosta (Author), María. del Carmen Morales-Rúan (Author), Mauricio Hernández-Ávila (Author), Juan Ángel Rivera-Dommarco (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective. To estimate recent overweight and obesity prevalences in Mexican population under 20 years from Halfway National Health and Nutrition Survey (Ensanut MC 2016). Materials and methods. Ensanut MC 2016 is a probabilistic national survey which gives representative information from national, r...