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Prevalence and associated factors of thinness among adolescent girls attending governmental schools in Aksum Town, Northern Ethiopia

Aregawi Amha, Tadele Girum

2018.3.1Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth

DOI: 10.4103/mjdrdypu.mjdrdypu_153_17

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Thinness was found to be a serious problem in the study area and strategies are needed to improve the nutritional status of adolescent girls before they reach conception to break the vicious cycle of intergenerational malnutrition.

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AMHA, Aregawi; GIRUM, Tadele. Prevalence and associated factors of thinness among adolescent girls attending governmental schools in aksum town, northern ethiopia. Medical Journal of Dr Dy Patil Vidyapeeth, 2018, 11: 158–164.