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EFFICACY OF DIETARY ASSESSMENT AND ANTHROPOMETRY PARAMETERS TO EVALUATE NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF SCHOOL GOING ADOLESCENTS IN LUCKNOW, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA

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Poonam Tiwari, Janmejai K. Srivastava, Vandana Tiwari, Manish R. Kulshreshtha, Mukesh Srivastava, Seema Kanojia
ยป doi: 10.33472/AFJBS.6.10.2024.4348-4358

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Adolescence is an important phase in the life of human being with rapid changes in their physical, cognitive and psychological areas. Nutrition status of adolescent is a significant factor to determine the health of a country. Nutrition plays an important role in the growth and development in adolescent girls and boys both. According to National Family Health Survey-5 the prevalence of anemia among adolescent girls was 57% and boys about 33.8%. Various assessment techniques have been used to assess malnutrition by adopting anthropometric measurements in terms of overweight and underweight such as BMI, MUAC and 24-hour dietary recall method.In present study, diet consumption pattern significantly reflected on the population anthropometric indices such as BMI and MUAC. In this study adoption of two assessment tools like anthropometric measurements and Dietary recall method were found to be effective in indicating malnutrition prevalence. For instance, weight was found to be increased in late adolescents as compared to early adolescents similarly their dietary pattern also indicated that late adolescent group consumed high carbohydrate -loaded diet and with high fat consumption pattern. The present research has tried to make nutritional assessment better by adopting anthropometric and dietary assessment parameters in compounded form rather than using them separately.

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