Teenage birth leads to short stature and anemia: Evidence from a longitudinal study of 10,000 girls in India

Objectives: Home to one in five adolescents globally and a tradition of marrying young, India faces a huge challenge of teenage births. Early birth can be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the teenage mother and her child, but few studies have followed teenage girls over time to understand...

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Autores principales: Pant, Anjali, Scott, Samuel P., Walia, Monika, Menon, Purnima, Nguyen, Phuong Hong
Formato: Resumen
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: American Society for Nutrition 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142426

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