Prevalence of General and Abdominal Obesity in a Nationally Representative Sample of Iranian Children and Adolescents: The CASPIAN-IV Study.

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Published in Iran J Pediatr on June 27, 2015

Authors

Haleh Esmaili1, Maryam Bahreynian1, Mostafa Qorbani2, Mohammad Esmaeel Motlagh3, Gelayol Ardalan4, Ramin Heshmat5, Roya Kelishadi4

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Nutrition, Child Growth, Development Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran.
2: Department of Public Health, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, IR Iran ; Department of Epidemiology, Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
3: Department of Pediatrics, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran.
4: Department of Pediatrics, Child Growth and Development Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non-communicable Diseases, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran.
5: Chronic Diseases Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.

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