Nutritional status and height, weight and BMI centiles of school-aged children and adolescents of 6–18-years from Kinshasa (DRC)

Background: The last study to establish centiles of main anthropometric measurements in Kinshasa was conducted over 60 years ago, which questions its current adequacy to describe or monitor growth in this population. Aim: To assess the nutritional status of school-aged children and adolescents and t...

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Main Authors:	Rudahaba Augustin Buhendwa, Mathieu Roelants, Martine Thomis, Constant E. Nkiama
Format:	Artigo
Language:	Inglês
Published:	Taylor & Francis Group 2017-08-01
Series:	Annals of Human Biology
Subjects:	nutritional status growth reference curves sub-saharan african school-aged children and adolescents lms method
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2017.1333149
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