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Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents Attended at Primary Health Care Units in Ilhéus, Bahia

2025-04-23

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Obesity is characterized by excessive accumulation of body fat, causing harm to health and involving biological, environmental, behavioral and genetic factors, with 1.9 billion people suffering from obesity worldwide, 25% of Brazilian adults and 23.8% of residents of Bahia. In children and adolescents, the prevalence of obesity has increased significantly, reaching around 10-15% of the...

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Literature Corpus work: 096bc643-c70f-56f2-84d0-527a705998fb
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6480537/v1

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