Perceived Stress Effect and Socio-demographic Factors in Substance Use: A Study of Undergraduate Students in a South African University
Year: 2019
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Obesity remains to be a global health problem.Chile has been affected by the high prevalence of obesity in the infant population.Obesity is shown interchangeably at early ages, being necessary to investigate this behavior in age groups of 4 to 7 years.To this end, a general objective has been set: to evaluate the nutritional status, from the anthropometric point of view, of children from 4 to 7 years of age in the district of Arica, carrying out a non-experimental, quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive-comparative study.As a result, it was found that there weren't statistically significant differences in the prevalence of obesity and overweight among girls and boys, although girls showed values of body mass index and percentage of fat mass discretely higher than boys and, the obesity increase was directly proportional to age.
Source: Studies on Ethno-Medicine
Author: Abimbola A. Akanni
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2942328945