The positive association between number of children and obesity in Iranian women and men: results from the National Health Survey.

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Published in BMC Public Health on June 15, 2008

Authors

Enayatollah Bakhshi1, Mohammad Reza Eshraghian, Kazem Mohammad, Abbas Rahimi Foroushani, Hojat Zeraati, Akbar Fotouhi, Fraidon Siassi, Behjat Seifi

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University/Medical Sciences, Iran. eshraghian@yahoo.com

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