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

• Hauptverfasser: Nouraei Mehdi (Verfasst von), Kamangar Farin (Verfasst von), Pourshams Akram (Verfasst von), Sadatsafavi Mohsen (Verfasst von), Bahrami Hossein (Verfasst von), Semnani Shahriar (Verfasst von), Brennan Paul (Verfasst von), Boffetta Paolo (Verfasst von), Malekzadeh Reza (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: BMC, 2006-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Schlagworte: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>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 prevale...