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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"Underweight"”.
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The Effect Of Pitching With Underweight And Overweight Balls On Pitch Velocity In Collegiate Baseball Pitchers.
… that were 20% overweight (6 ounces), 20% underweight (4 ounces), and regulation weight (5 ounces) while the NT group used only the regulation weight baseball. A repeated measures ANOVA was conducted. Statistical significance was set at p?0.05. RESULTS: Pitch velocity did not significantly …
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The effect of nutritional assessment and counseling of underweight pregnant women enrolled in nutrition intervention project (NIP)
… of nutritional counseling and assessment of underweight pregnant women enrolled in NIP program of the Virginia State Health Department on pregnancy outcomes, including biological, social and nutritional risk variables. A total sample of 2228 prenatal women enrolled in the program from …
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The influence of birth weight on under-five children’s nutritional status in Zambia
… regression, producing Odds Ratios of Stunting, Underweight and Wasting among under-five children associated with birthweight were used. The sample included Children aged 0–59 months of age, women aged 15–49 years of age for whom complete and plausible anthropometric data were collected and that …
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The influence of birth weight on under-five children’s nutritional status in Zambia
… regression, producing Odds Ratios of Stunting, Underweight and Wasting among under-five children associated with birthweight were used. The sample included Children aged 0–59 months of age, women aged 15–49 years of age for whom complete and plausible anthropometric data were collected and that …
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The influence of maternal socio-economic status on infant feeding practices and anthropometry of HIV-exposed infants
… pairs were analyzed. Few infants were underweight if their mothers’ personal income or total household income were more than R800.00 per month, 12.7% and 1% respectively. Nearly twice as many infants (49.6%) of the single mothers were underweight as compared to infants (19.8%) whose …
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Undernutrition in Khayelitsha, Crossroads and Browns Farm: A review of nutritional outcomes of children treated at Philani's clinics from 2008 to 2018
… of children under five years of age referred for underweight or growth faltering who were treated at Philani clinics in Khayelitsha, Crossroads and Browns Farm. Children were assessed by a medical doctor, and received nutritional supplementation according to the Nutrition Therapeutic Programme …
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Factors associated with nutritional status of children aged six to fifty-nine months in Livingstone, Zambia
… and socio-economic factors in matched groups of underweight children and normal weight children from the mothers/caregivers of the children. Interviews, using a structured pre-tested questionnaire, were used to obtain the data. All children aged from six to fifty-nine months admitted at …
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Parental Perception Of Child Weight Status In Wangcheng District, Hunan Province, People's Republic Of China
… 13% of children were classified as very underweight or underweight, 77% were of normal weight, and 10% overweight or obese. </p> <p>Conclusions: Parents of overweight or obese children had a higher correlation between their perception of child weight status than did parents of children …
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Distribuição de valores de medidas antropométricas e avaliação do estado nutricional de escolares de 7 a 10 anos de idade, da cidade de Santos - SP
… where 5th percentile is a cutoff point for underweight, 85th percentile is cutoff for overweight, and 95th percentile is cutoff for obesity. The prevalence of nutritional status was also calculated by Cole et al. (2000) diagnostic criteria, adopted by the International Obesity Task Force …
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Perceived Attractiveness and Personality Attributes: A Gender and Racial Analysis
… regardless of racial background, rated shapely underweight females as most physically attractive, sexy, and ideal for a woman, followed by normal weight figures of similar proportion. African Americans, women in particular, judged the shapely normal weight figures more favorably than the other …
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Food behavior, anthropometric indicators, physical activity and physical abilities of young men and women with normal weight, underweight and overweight /// Хранително поведение, антропометрични показатели, физическа активност и физическа дееспособност на младежи и девойки с нормално, поднормено и наднормено тегло
… frequency of nutrition intake in the groups with underweight and normal weight. When boys and girls are overweight are established characteristics in food habits and preferences, which are indicative of an underreporting of the actual food consumption of some high calorie foods and are an …
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Association between dietary intake, health status and nutritional status of children aged 6-23 months in Namwala and Mkushi districts of Zambia
… which is described in forms of stunting, underweight, overweight and wasting in children 6-23 months include poor infant stimulation and nurturing, inadequate dietary nutrients and recurrent illnesses/infections which result in poor absorption of nutrients, poor cognitive development, …
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Hungering for Survival: Trends in under-5 malnutrition and attributable disease burden
… generate time series of wasting, stunting, and underweight, we employed the comparative risk assessment method to calculate death and disease burden attributable to these three indicators of malnutrition. Deaths attributable to stunting declined from a peak of 3.89 (95% confidence intervals: …
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NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF SCHOOLING CHILDREN IN TANZANIA AND UGANDA: RESEARCH AND ACTION
… overweight is underestimated, wasting and underweight are not affected by age imprecision. Assessment: We have assessed the nutritional status of 1254 children, 423 in Tanzania and 831 in Uganda, in five schools with different social, cultural and environmental characteristics. Bumbire …
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Socioeconomic status (SES), food insecurity and the double burden of malnutrition within South African households
… concurrently result in overweight adults, but underweight children. Although, household DBM is linked with poverty and food insecurity and its prevalence is steadfastly increasing it is yet to be investigated in South Africa, despite this country being one of the most inequitable in the world. …
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An assessment of the nutritional status of children under five years in Maputaland, Kwa-Zulu-Natal
… namely, Mangnza and Ngwavuma. Stunting, underweight, acute under nutrition and lower upper arm measurement were prevalent is children of Mapataland. The average diet contained an adequate amount of portion from the meat and cereals group but had inadequate content milk and fruit/vegetable …
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Family Structure and Child Malnutrition in China: Three Essays
… been marked by a co-existence of overweight and underweight. As the primary institution for a child, family is an opportune place for child malnutrition intervention. By advancing a framework that addresses the contextual factors which shape the heterogeneity of socioeconomic gradients of child …
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Childhood Misnourishment, School Meal Programs and Academic Performance
… childhood misnourishment, overweight/obesity and underweight, are accompanied by serious health consequences and a heavy economic burden. In 2008, 19.6% of US children aged 6 to 11 and 18.1% of adolescents aged 12 to 19 were obese equating to 13 million children. Furthermore, in 2006, 2.7% of US …
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