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Overweight and its associated risk factors among urban school adolescents in Nepal: a cross-sectional study.

Suneel PiryaniKedar Prasad BaralBandana PradhanAmod Kumar PoudyalRano Mal Piryani
Published in: BMJ open (2016)
Socioeconomic status, watching television for a longer time and consuming less fruit are major risk factors for overweight among adolescents in Nepal. Interventions are needed to increase awareness about the risk factors of adolescent overweight and obesity to decrease prevalence of overweight-associated non-communicable diseases.
Keyphrases
  • physical activity
  • risk factors
  • weight loss
  • young adults
  • weight gain
  • mental health
  • body mass index
  • tertiary care