Nutritional Status and Associated Factors of Adolescent School Girls, Goba Town, Southeast Ethiopia

Mekonnen Tegegne; Semere Sileshi; Tesfaye Assefa; Abdurrahman Kalu

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Mekonnen Tegegne
Semere Sileshi
Tesfaye Assefa
Abdurrahman Kalu

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adolescents girls, nutritional status, stunting, thinness

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Nutritional Status and Associated Factors of Adolescent School Girls, Goba Town, Southeast Ethiopia. (2016). Global Journal of Medical Research, 16(25), 13-20. https://medicalresearchjournal.org/index.php/GJMR/article/view/

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