conclusions our research determined an association between screen time, physical activity and rbmi. screen time was a prominent predictor of rbmi in children. it is important for health workers to decrease screen time of children to prevent the prevalence of being overweight and obesity. patients and methods in this cross sectional descriptive study we randomly selected 302 students, from all d...

Abstract: Overweight and obesity has become a major global health challenge that affects virtually all ages. The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence overweight/obesity associated f...

Obesity is one of the health problems in the developing and developed countries. Obesity subjects the individuals with metabolic and endocrine disorders. It is obvious that vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency may lead to secondary hyperparathyroidism. Thus, obesity increases the risk of vitamin D deficiency. Considering the high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in children and adolescents w...

Objective: Obesity is a major health problem. Overweight and obesity have been identified as one of the 10 leading health indicators. This study was designed to evaluate the Body Mass Index in Iranian university student sample. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study on 911 Iranian university students aged 18-25 years who were selected by simple random sampling. Weight, heig...

background: the prevalence of obesity and overweight among children and adolescents is increasing worldwide and it is one of the most important general health problems. one of the routine methods in diagnosis of physical growth in children is body mass index (bmi). methods: this study is a cross – sectional one in which 742 students from primary schools aged 7-11 years were chosen in a two-stag...

background and objectives: several studies have so far been carried out to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity among iranian children but few studies have investigated the relationship between eating habits, socio-demographic differentials and obesity in these children. so, this study tried to assess the body weight status among the urban high school boy students of urmia, iran. ...

Background: Overweight and obesity are the most serious public health challenges of developed and developing countries. The prevalence of childhood obesity has increased worldwide. This study aims to identify the behavioral determinants of overweight and obesity among adolescents. Methods: This is a qualitative study with directed approach to content analysis of in-depth semi-structured intervi...

BackgroundChildhood obesity has become a global epidemic. In the recent studies has reported risk of thyroid dysfunction due to obesity. Therefore, this study intends to compare the relative frequency of thyroid function disorders in obese and overweight children with non-obese children.Materials and MethodsThis case-control study during 2015 to 2016 in Birjand, Iran was done on 137 children an...