The purpose of the present study was to determine the prevalences of overweight and obesity among Saudi children in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This was a cross-sectional study conducted at the National Guard Comprehensive Specialized Clinic in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Data were collected over a period of 6 months between December 2014 and May 2015. The study sample included 1000 children of Saudi natio...

conclusions a high prevalence of obesity was found in zahedan students. concurrent high prevalence of obesity/overweight and underweight demonstrates amplitude of weight problems in school children. there is an urgent need for special health programs to conduct proper diagnosis and management of obesity in zahedan. results in the sample, 78.9% were under 85th percentile, 11.8% were overweight (...

background and objectives: childhood obesity is an increasing public health problem in iran, and there is no evidence for effective prevention strategies to date. the aim of this qualitative study was to identify and prioritise perceived potential interventions by parents and school staff to help inform the development of an obesity prevention intervention for iranian school children. materials...

BACKGROUND Overweight and obesity are highly prevalent among American Indian children, especially those living on reservations. There is little scientific evidence about the effects of summer vacation on obesity development in children. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of summer vacation between kindergarten and first grade on growth in height, weight, and body mass inde...

Hepatitis A virus (HAV) has different epidemiologic and clinical patterns, depending on the level of endemicity in a given geographic area. Tunisia is considered a region of high endemicity for hepatitis. Improvement of socioeconomic conditions in this country has made a determination of the seroprevalence of this disease advisable. We assessed the seroprevalence of HAV in Sousse in central Tun...

BACKGROUND There is a lack of comparable data on physical activity, sedentary behavior, and dietary habits among Arab adolescents, which limits our understanding and interpretation of the relationship between obesity and lifestyle parameters. Therefore, we initiated the Arab Teens Lifestyle Study (ATLS). The ATLS is a multicenter collaborative project for assessing lifestyle habits of Arab adol...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study is to assess the elementary schoolchildren's nutritional status based on anthropometric indices due to the sudden spread of obesity in children and adolescents in both developed and developing countries. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on 3647 children with an age range of 7-11 years of primary schools in Babol using cluster random samp...

Can the rise in obesity among children be attributed to the intergenerational transmission of parental influences? Does this trend affect the influence of parent's socioeconomic status on obesity? This paper documents evidence of an emerging social gradient of obesity in pre-school children resulting from a combination of both socio-economic status and less intensive childcare associated with m...

Background: The influence of parents on physical activity (PA) and body weight their children is confirmed by scientific studies. However, it not known whether only or those with siblings have a higher level PA healthier weight. Objective: aims this study are (i) to assess there any differences in the achievement daily step count (SC) recommendation prevalence overweight/obesity between from fa...