Nutrition and Health in Arab Adolescents (NaHAR): Study protocol for the determination of ethnic-specific body fat and anthropometric cut-offs to identify metabolic syndrome.

Nutrition and Health in Arab Adolescents (NaHAR): Study protocol for the determination of ethnic-specific body fat and anthropometric cut-offs to identify metabolic syndrome.

The prevalence of adolescent obesity in the Middle-East is considered among the highest in the world. Obesity in adolescents is associated with several cardiometabolic abnormalities, the constellation of which is referred to as the metabolic syndrome (MetS). This multi-country cross-sectional study...

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Main Authors: Lara Nasreddine, Mohamad Adel Bakir, Tareq Al-Ati, Abeer Salman Alzaben, Rawhieh Barham, Nahla Bawazeer, Elie-Jacques Fares, Kholoud Hammad, Pernille Kaestel, John J Reilly, Mandy Taktouk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298306

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298306

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