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Mysore Childhood Obesity Study

This study was conducted to document the prevalence of obesity, overweight and underweight in the school children aged 5 to 16 years from Mysore. 5 Principal Investigators and 13 Co-Investigators trained the teachers of 139 schools. A total of 43152 school children (23527 boys and 19625 girls) were surveyed.