Nutrition status of children in Latin America.

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Published in Obes Rev on July 01, 2017

Authors

C Corvalán1, M L Garmendia1, Jessica Jones-Smith2,3,4, Chessa K Lutter5, J Jaime Miranda6, Lilia S Pedraza7, Shu Wen Ng8, Manuel Ramirez-Zea9, D Salvo10,11, Aryeh D Stein12

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
2: Global Obesity Prevention Center.
3: Bloomberg School of Public Health, and.
4: Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
5: Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, Pan American Health Organization/WHO, Washington, DC.
6: CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
7: Center for Nutrition and Health Research.
8: From the Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
9: Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama Research Center for the Prevention of Chronic Diseases (CIIPEC), Guatemala City, Guatemala.
10: Center for Nutrition and Health Research, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
11: Michael and Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Austin Campus, Austin, TX, USA.
12: Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; and Medical Research Council (MRC) Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, and aryeh.stein@emory.edu.

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