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Household food insecurity is associated with abdominal but not general obesity among Iranian children

BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is increasing all over the world. Food insecurity is mentioned as a possible risk factor; however, previous studies have led to inconsistent results in different societies while data are lacking for the Middle East. We aimed to investigate the relationship between food...

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Autores principales: Jafari, Fateme, Ehsani, Simin, Nadjarzadeh, Azadeh, Esmaillzadeh, Ahmad, Noori-Shadkam, Mahmood, Salehi-Abargouei, Amin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5399801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28431549
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4262-3