The authors would like to apologise for a major error that occurred in the publication of the Annals of Human Biology, Sept–Oct/Nov–Dec, 33 (5/6): 641–647.
Anthropometric characteristics and nutritional status of Kondh: a tribal population of Kandhmal District, Orissa, India
ARNAB GHOSH & SANJIB KUMAR BALA
Table 4 should be disregarded from the paper and the following deletions from the text and References noted.
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There was a strong positive association (χ216=17:15; p <0.01) between BMI categories and monthly family income (Table IV). The greatest number of severe to moderately thin individuals was evident in families with a monthly family income of less than 500 rupees (less than 10 US$).
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The present study demonstrated that even among this rural resource-poor study population those with the least monthly income had significantly greater levels of undernutrition. This is further support for the well-known association between socioeconomic factors and undernutrition. However, studies which have assessed nutritional status in adolescent girls in India have revealed no association between nutritional status of adolescent girls and per capita monthly family income (Singh and Misra Citation2001; Das and Biswas Citation2005).
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- Singh N, Misra CP. Nutritional status of adolescent girls of a slum community of Varanasi. Indian J Public Health 2001; 45: 128–134