Vol. 7 (01) pp. 780-786 DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/8387

OVERWEIGHT PREVALENCE AMONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS PUPILS IN THE CITY OF IASI, ROMANIA.

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This study represents the result of a research on a population aged between 11 and 15 years, respectively pupils attending elementary schools in the city of Iasi (8911). The research aimed at emphasising cases of overweight to afore mentioned ages. This study has used somatoscopy as an assessment tool and whenever the diagnosis was unlikely, the body fat index was calculated. Statistic analysis of findings revealed that the average percentage specific to 5th-7th grades was 7.59% overweight pupils, with variations between 7.3% and 8.4% among classes, where 45% are girls and 55% are boys.

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Marin Chirazi, Ionut Onose, Raluca Mihaela Hodorca and Renato Gabriel Petrea. (2019); OVERWEIGHT PREVALENCE AMONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS PUPILS IN THE CITY OF IASI, ROMANIA., International Journal of Advanced Research (IJAR), 7 (01), 780-786, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/8387

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