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Vellore cohort reveals India's growing double burden of malnutrition in school-age children

Children growing up in a low-income urban community in Vellore are now facing two seemingly opposite forms of malnutrition simultaneously…

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Children growing up in a low-income urban community in Vellore are now facing two seemingly opposite forms of malnutrition simultaneously: persistent thinness and rising obesity by the time they reach primary school age. A longitudinal birth cohort study of 251 children found that while thinness remained common, the prevalence of overweight and obesity near…

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