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Obesity and hypertension in an Iranian cohort study; Iranian women experience higher rates of obesity and hypertension than American women

BACKGROUND: Once considered as the main public health problem in developed countries, obesity has become a major problem throughout the world and developing countries, like Iran, are joining the global obesity pandemic. We determined the prevalence of overweight, obesity, and hypertension in a large...

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Autores principales: Bahrami, Hossein, Sadatsafavi, Mohsen, Pourshams, Akram, Kamangar, Farin, Nouraei, Mehdi, Semnani, Shahriar, Brennan, Paul, Boffetta, Paolo, Malekzadeh, Reza
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1533819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16784543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-158