Health & Medicine

Overweight among Swiss children and adolescents on the decline

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Le 19h30
01 May 2018

Nathalie Farpour-Lambert

HUG

Médecine, UNIGE

The proportion of overweight and obese children and adolescents in Switzerland is falling. It has fallen from 19.9% to 16.7% in a dozen years, reveals the 12th Health Promotion Switzerland monitoring survey.

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