Qi Feng, Georgina Ireland, Ruth Gilbert, Katie Harron
Data Resource Profile: A national linked mother-baby cohort of health, education and social care data in England (ECHILD-MB)
International journal of epidemiology
background obesity overweight among common serious health issues many countries leading numerous medical consequences heart disease hypertension fatty liver etc review article addressed prevalence obesity overweight iranian students using metaanalysis methods number domestic international databases searched including iranmedex magiran sid scopus pubmed irandoc web science google scholar eligible publications 160 articles addressed prevalence obesity overweight data combined using random effects model heterogeneity studies examined q statistics i2 index data analyzed using stata version 111 results 160 reviewed studies total 481070 individuals 620 years included prevalence obesity among iranian students based body mass index bmi 11 95 confidence interval ci 1012 girls 8 95 ci 710 boys 11 95 ci 1013 prevalence overweight students based bmi 12 95 ci 1213 girls 13 95 ci 1114 boys 11 95 ci 1830 rate obesity 13 95 ci 1116 elementary school students 10 95 ci 714 secondary school students 7 95 ci 69 high school students conclusions prevalence rate overweight obesity 1 difference prevalence obesity higher boys prevalence overweight higher girls prevalence obesity higher primary school students secondary school students prevalence higher secondary school students high school students