Ethnic Differences in Body Mass Index, Weight and Height Among School Children in the North of Iran
Author(s) -
Gholamreza Veghari
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
eurasian journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1308-8742
pISSN - 1308-8734
DOI - 10.5152/eajm.2012.05
Subject(s) - overweight , medicine , obesity , body mass index , demography , ethnic group , logistic regression , cluster sampling , percentile , cluster (spacecraft) , childhood obesity , gerontology , environmental health , population , statistics , mathematics , sociology , anthropology , computer science , programming language
Overweight and obesity are common health problems among adolescents. This study was set up to evaluate these problems and certain socio-demographic-related factors among three ethnic groups as represented by primary school children in northern Iran in 2010.
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