background: iran is a vast country with great variability in ethnicity and geographical regions as well as higher diversity in socioeconomic and demographic factors in different provinces. all these differences could influence the growth indicators of children and may result in a substantial inequality in the distribution of growth indexes across iranian provinces. this study aimed to determine...

background: the obesity and hypertension are the major risk factors of several life threatening diseases. the present study was aimed to investigate the relation between body mass index (bmi) the validated index of adiposity and different aspect of blood pressure (bp). methods: systolic and diastolic blood pressures and also weight and height of 7 to 18 years old children and adolescent col­lec...

An international summit focusing on the difficult challenge of providing adequate nutrition for adolescent girls and young women in low- and middle-income countries was held in Portland, Oregon in 2015. Sixty-seven delegates from 17 countries agreed on a series of recommendations that would make progress toward improving the nutritional status of girls and young women in countries where their a...

He *be effort and cost and also to evaluate each > ^ea as the children made use of it. t PreParin? the design I had to keep many 0rs in mind. For instance, the hostel accom, ated boys and girls aged from 5-16 years, some o^om were hyperactive and destructive whilst ers Were withdrawn and unsociable. Some had a very short attention span but others became obsessed with a play situation for long p...

resistant hypertension in adolescents is increasing in frequency and is increasingly recognized as having significant short- and long-term health consequences. it may be seen in up to 30% of all hypertensive patients cared for. adolescents with resistant hypertension are at higher cardiovascular (cv) risk due to a long history of severe hypertension complicated by other cv risk factors such as ...

background: sunlight is the main source of vitamin d; therefore, environmental factors might have an important role in the high prevalence of hypovitaminosis d in children. this study aimed to assess the vitamin d status according to the climate of the living area in a nationally representative sample of iranian adolescents. material and methods: this nationwide cross-sectional survey was perfo...

background: reference percentile curves are usually used as a screening tool to determine growth disorders. anthropometric indices are population-dependent and may differ according to ethnicity, dietary pattern and lifestyle habits. this study aims to compare the curves of anthropometric measures obtained in two national studies conducted among iranian children and adolescents in 2003-2004 and ...

background: weight loss and decreasing the body fat percentage (bf%) is motivated to optimize performance. in order to achieve these, many supplements are used by athletes, however the possible negative or synergic effects have not been fully described in the literature, specifically in humans. the present study was conducted to investigate the co-administration effects of two common used suppl...

objective: major depressive disorder is a severe disorder that has a significant impact on the psychological and social functioning of children and adolescents. considering current limitations in the treatment of this disorder, the present study was performed to evaluate the efficacy of fluvoxamine in the treatment of children and adolescents with major depressive disorder. method: in an open t...

background: because prehypertension identifies children most at risk for the development of future hypertensive disease, the purpose of this study was, to examine the association of prehypertension with risk factors for cardiovascular disease (cvd) in a large sample of youths participating in the community-based prevention education program family heart study. methods: we estimated blood pressu...