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cajgh-413	Abiri, Behnaz; Sarbakhsh, Parvin; Vafa, Mohammadreza	Prevalence of overweight, obesity, and associated risk factors in healthy female adolescents in Tehran, Iran	2019	13	.pdf	application/pdf	6726	396	53	Keywords: Overweight; Obesity; Body mass index; Female adolescents; Tehran Prevalence of overweight, obesity, and associated risk factors in healthy female adolescents in Tehran, Iran Behnaz Abiri1, Parvin Sarbakhsh2, Mohammadreza Vafa3,4 1Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Paramedicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran; 2Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; 3Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4Pediatric Growth and Development Research Center, Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Research Introduction The epidemic of overweight is a growing worldwide public health concern.1 While the mechanisms are not well understood, sleep insufficiency may lead to hormonal alterations, less physical activity, and to unhealthy eating patterns including elevated consumption of foods with a high glycemic index.8 Socioeconomic factors also have a notable effect on adolescent weight, since it has been demonstrated that populations with low economic level have a higher prevalence of childhood obesity, due to diet, which is mainly based on a high intake of carbohydrates that were established to be the most easily obtainable foods for their environment.8 To our knowledge, studies evaluating the trends of overweight and obesity among adolescents in Tehran are scarce.	cache/cajgh-413.pdf	txt/cajgh-413.txt