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

• Egile Nagusiak: Nouraei Mehdi (Egilea), Kamangar Farin (Egilea), Pourshams Akram (Egilea), Sadatsafavi Mohsen (Egilea), Bahrami Hossein (Egilea), Semnani Shahriar (Egilea), Brennan Paul (Egilea), Boffetta Paolo (Egilea), Malekzadeh Reza (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: BMC, 2006-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...