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Trends in Overweight Among Adolescents Living in the Poorest and Richest Regions of Brazil

Gloria Valeria da Veiga, PhD, Adriana Simone da Cunha, MPH and Rosely Sichieri, MD, PhD

Gloria Valeria da Veiga is with the Department of Nutrition, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and Andriana Simone da Cunha and Rosely Sichieri are with the Department of Epidemiology, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.






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  		FIGURE 1—— Trends in body mass index (BMI) for 5th, 50th, 85th, and 95th percentiles among adolescents aged 10 to 19 years living in the poorest and richest regions in 2 Brazilian surveys: (a) boys in the Northeast, (b) boys in the Southeast, (c) girls in the Northeast, and (d) girls in the Southeast.

Note. Solid lines indicate 1975; dotted lines indicate 1997. Percentiles indicated with "P."

 




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