The levels of BMI and patterns of obesity and overweight during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experience from the Iran STEPs 2021 survey

BackgroundObesity and its increasing burden have become an urgent health problem all over the world. Benefiting from a national representative sample, the present study aimed to estimate the distribution of body mass index (BMI) levels and its association with metabolic and lifestyle risk factors in...

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Main Authors: Shirin Djalalinia, Moein Yoosefi, Sarvenaz Shahin, Erfan Ghasemi, Nazila Rezaei, Naser Ahmadi, Negar Rezaei, Mehrdad Azmin, Shahabeddin Rezaei, Maryam Nasserinejad, Esmaeil Mohammadi, Rosa Haghshenas, Alireza Namazi Shabestari, Hamidreza Jamshidi, Marziyeh Vahid Dastjerdi, Bagher Larijani, Farshad Farzadfar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Endocrinology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2022.1043894/full