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The Emerging Nutritional Problems of School Adolescents: Overweight/Obesity and Associated Factors in Jimma Town, Ethiopia.
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Findings of this study can be used to guide the development of programs aimed at preventing overweight/obesity in Ethiopia by informing policymakers and other stakeholders about this emerging nutrition‐related problem among school adolescents.About:
This article is published in Journal of Pediatric Nursing.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 33 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Overweight.read more
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Prevalence and associated factors of overweight/ obesity among children and adolescents in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
TL;DR: Female gender, high family socioeconomic status, learning in private school, physical inactivity, sweet nutriments preference and less use of fruits/vegetables were found to be significantly associated with overweight/obesity.
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Ethiopian Orthodox Fasting and Lactating Mothers: Longitudinal Study on Dietary Pattern and Nutritional Status in Rural Tigray, Ethiopia.
TL;DR: Ethiopian Orthodox fasting negatively affected maternal nutritional status and dietary pattern in rural Tigray, Northern Ethiopia and should include religious institutions in a sustainable manner to reduce maternal malnutrition in Ethiopia.
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The double burden of malnutrition among youth: trajectories and inequalities in four emerging economies
TL;DR: Evidence suggests a window of opportunity for interventions to reduce stunting and to avert overweight development in adolescence, in addition to the often-emphasized first 1000 days after conception.
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Optimal dietary practices and nutritional knowledge of school adolescent girls in Jimma Town, South West Ethiopia
TL;DR: Low dietary diversity of school adolescent girls was positively associated with attending government schools, lack of maternal education and low-economic status, and both government and non-government organizations need to focus on school and community based nutrition intervention to address the low dietary Diversity of school girl adolescents.
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Dietary Practices, Nutrient Adequacy, and Nutrition Status among Adolescents in Boarding High Schools in the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania.
TL;DR: Monitoring adolescents' dietary intake and nutrition status is a key in preventing adolescents' malnutrition in the short term and diet-related diseases in the long term.
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Global prevalence and trends of overweight and obesity among preschool children
TL;DR: The need for effective interventions starting as early as infancy to reverse anticipated trends of childhood overweight and obesity have increased dramatically since 1990 are confirmed.
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Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) : nine country reliability and validity study
TL;DR: GPAQ provides reproducible data and showed a moderate-strong positive correlation with IPAQ, a previously validated and accepted measure of physical activity, indicating that it is a suitable and acceptable instrument for monitoring physical activity in population health surveillance systems.
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Prevalence of obesity, central obesity and the associated factors in urban population aged 20-70 years, in the north of Iran: a population-based study and regression approach.
TL;DR: Low level of activity and education, parity, family history of obesity, marriage at earlier age and ageing are responsible for both obesity and central obesity in the north of Iran.
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Poor nutritional status of schoolchildren in urban and peri-urban areas of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
TL;DR: This study shows that malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies are also widely prevalent in schoolchildren in cities, and it underlines the need for nutrition interventions to target them.
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A comparative study of prevalence of overweight and obesity in children in different provinces of Saudi Arabia.
TL;DR: It is concluded that overweight and obesity occur in all provinces of Saudi Arabia although at a variable prevalence and in general, girls have a higher prevalence of both overweight and Obesity compared with boys.