Journal:
:iranian red crescent medical journal
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arezoo rezazadeh department of community nutrition, national nutrition and food technology research institute, faculty of nutrition and food technology, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
nasrin omidvar department of community nutrition, national nutrition and food technology research institute, faculty of nutrition and food technology, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; department of community nutrition, national nutrition and food technology research institute, faculty of nutrition and food technology, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran. tel: +98-2122357484
hassan eini-zinab department of community nutrition, national nutrition and food technology research institute, faculty of nutrition and food technology, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
mahmoud ghazi-tabatabaie department of demography, faculty of social sciences, tehran university, tehran, ir iran
reza majdzadeh national institute of health research, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
saeid ghavamzadeh nutrition department, faculty of medicine, urmia university of medical sciences, urmia, ir iran
conclusions the findings point to a relationship between neighborhood characteristics and obesity only in the azeri turks. however, educational level was more important than neighborhood quality in predicting the risk of obesity results three common neighborhood environments were identified: 1) modern-affluent, 2) central-high access and 3) marginal. these three factors explained 73.2% of the t...
