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Social and psychological predictors of body mass index among South Africans 15 years and older: Sanhanes-1
(MPDI, 2019)
This study investigated how psychological distress and the proxies for social position
combine to influence the risk of both underweight and overweight in South Africans aged 15 years and
older. This was a cross-sectional ...
Diagnostic accuracy of body mass index in defining childhood obesity: Analysis of cross-sectional data from ghanaian children
(MPDI, 2020)
Screening methods for childhood obesity are based largely on the published body mass index (BMI) criteria. Nonetheless, their accuracy in African children is largely unknown. The diagnostic accuracies of the World Health ...