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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1324</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>ANTHROPOMETRIC ASSESSMENT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN IN AGE GROUP 10-18 YEARS AT JAIPUR&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mohan</surname><given-names>Indu</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Paliwal</surname><given-names>Archana</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Singh</surname><given-names>Veerbhan</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>S.L.Bhardwaj</surname><given-names/></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sharma</surname><given-names>Bhupendra Nath</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>18</day><month>06</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>94</fpage><lpage>99</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: To determine health status by anthropometric measurements. Material and Methods: A total of 720 students between 10-18 years of age, of Rajkiya Uccha Madhyamic Vidhyalaya in Jagatpura of Jaipur. Demographic details including age assessment, body height, body weight and BMI were estimated. Results: Mean BMI observed is higher in girls (14-18 years) as compared to boys. By BMI for age criteria __ampersandsignlt;3 percentile was observed in 149 (41.16%) boys and 72 (24.49%) girls. Total 221 (33.69%) students were falling in underweight category. In the overweight (85th -97th percentile) category 6 (1.66%) boys and 4 (1.36%) girls were found. Total 10 students (1.52%) were in this category. We observed only one girl in obese category (__ampersandsigngt;97th percentile). Short stature __ampersandsignlt; 3 percentile was observed in 180 (27.44%) students, of these, 123 (68.4%) were boys, 57(31.6%) were girls. Tall stature (__ampersandsigngt;97percentile) were observed in 8 (1.22%) students including 5 (1.38%) boys and 3 (1.02%) girls. Conclusion: It can be concluded that nutritional status of the study population in present study is better as compared to the rural population of other studies. We recommend that these data should be used as a growth reference for Indian children and adolescents of Jaipur zone.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Body mass Index</kwd><kwd> anthropometry</kwd><kwd> Nutritional status</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
