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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">135</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>A STUDY ON THE PREVALENCE OF NUTRITIONAL PROBLEMS OF SCHOOL GOING ADOLESCENT GIRLS OF KASHMIR VALLEY WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON ANEMIA&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ali</surname><given-names>Darakshan</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Fazili</surname><given-names>Anjum</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Shah</surname><given-names>Rohul Jabeen</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rafiq</surname><given-names>Mir Mohammad</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>6</fpage><lpage>12</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: In India adolescents constitute about 22.8% of total population forming a significant proportion of the population [3].Nutrition is an important area of concern in adolescent health especially in girls. Improper nutrition in girls has been shown to lead to adverse intergenerational effects.&#13;
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Aims and Objectives: To identify the nutritional problems of school going adolescent girls of Kashmir Valley and to study the factors associated with anemia in these girls.&#13;
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Methodology: A cross sectional study design was adopted and the study was conducted in randomly selected schools in three districts of Kashmir Valley. A total of 428 girls in the age group of 12 to 18 years were included in the study. Data was collected using a pre-tested and pre-structured questionnaire which included assessment of the dietary habits, anthropometric measurements and general physical examination of the study population. Hb estimation of a subset of the study population was also done. Data was analyzed using SPSS 20.0.&#13;
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Results: It was seen that anemia was the most common nutritional problem in the adolescent girls seen in 53.30% of them followed by thinness in 35.70% of them [7] Other problems seen were overweight, obesity and thyromegaly.&#13;
Conclusion: Thus it is concluded from this study that a considerable proportion of adolescent girls suffered from nutritional problems which need to be addressed in order to improve the overall health status of these girls.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Adolescents</kwd><kwd> Nutrition</kwd><kwd> Thinness</kwd><kwd> Overweight</kwd><kwd> Anemia</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
