Obesity prevalence and associated physical activity levels of children aged seven to ten years in quintile five primary schools in the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality
Background: Obesity is a chronic and complex metabolic disease with associated comorbidities. The prevalence of excess body weight has risen substantially in both affluent developed countries and in developing countries worldwide. In 2008 it was estimated that 43 million children under the age of fi...
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Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021086 |