Artículo científico -- Universidad de Costa Rica, Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud. 1994Title: Overweight or "stunting" in sixth grade scholars from an urban marginal metropolitan area?. Introduction: Obesity is the most prevalent nutritional disorder in Costa Rican children and adolescents. The last Nutritional National survey reveals a prevalence of 23.2% on women from 15-19 years and about 20% in scholars from the metropolitan area. The Body Mass Index (BMI) is used internationally to diagnose the overweight grade or obesity risk. In populations with high prevalence of stunting , as is the case of developing countries like ours, this indicator has to be used with caution, as it has been demonstrated in a Guatemala study, that even t...
Introducción: el sobrepeso en la adolescencia se relaciona con el desarrollo precoz de aterosclerosi...
Summary The World Health Organization defines childhood obesity as one of the most serious Health pr...
Objectives. To determine the prevalence of Obesity in 7-9 years old children in three schools of Chi...
La evaluación de la situación nutricional de los niños, depende en gran medida de las curvas de crec...
Objetive: analyze the prevalence of overweight and obesity, the level of physical activity and self-...
Objetive: Estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children of 5-11 years of EI Regulo G...
Objetivos. Determinar la frecuencia de alteraciones en el peso en escolares de 3 planteles públicos,...
Introduction. What we know about nutrition of the population, is that it tends to show a decrease in...
Introduction: Teenagers represent somehow a fifth of the population and are not away from nutritiona...
Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that pose a health risk...
Obesity is an epidemic problem in the world and is present from an early age. The objective was to a...
Nowadays overweight is a condition that prepares adolescents to several chronical diseases in the fu...
Nowadays overweight is a condition that prepares adolescents to several chronical diseases in the fu...
Introduction: The prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing every day in many developed and...
The purpose of this investigation was to explore the prevalence of overweight, obesity, physical act...
Introducción: el sobrepeso en la adolescencia se relaciona con el desarrollo precoz de aterosclerosi...
Summary The World Health Organization defines childhood obesity as one of the most serious Health pr...
Objectives. To determine the prevalence of Obesity in 7-9 years old children in three schools of Chi...
La evaluación de la situación nutricional de los niños, depende en gran medida de las curvas de crec...
Objetive: analyze the prevalence of overweight and obesity, the level of physical activity and self-...
Objetive: Estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children of 5-11 years of EI Regulo G...
Objetivos. Determinar la frecuencia de alteraciones en el peso en escolares de 3 planteles públicos,...
Introduction. What we know about nutrition of the population, is that it tends to show a decrease in...
Introduction: Teenagers represent somehow a fifth of the population and are not away from nutritiona...
Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that pose a health risk...
Obesity is an epidemic problem in the world and is present from an early age. The objective was to a...
Nowadays overweight is a condition that prepares adolescents to several chronical diseases in the fu...
Nowadays overweight is a condition that prepares adolescents to several chronical diseases in the fu...
Introduction: The prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing every day in many developed and...
The purpose of this investigation was to explore the prevalence of overweight, obesity, physical act...
Introducción: el sobrepeso en la adolescencia se relaciona con el desarrollo precoz de aterosclerosi...
Summary The World Health Organization defines childhood obesity as one of the most serious Health pr...
Objectives. To determine the prevalence of Obesity in 7-9 years old children in three schools of Chi...