Arwa Alhamed, Abdullah Al-Zeer, Fahad Alsaawi, Abdulrahman Alshaikh, Abrar Alzaher, Abdullah Alkattan, Noura Alrasheed, Khlood Sagor, Elham Alsalem, Mona Ibrahim, Amjad Alfaleh
BACKGROUND: Recent reports indicated an increasing prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents in Saudi Arabia, making it an impending national epidemic. However, obesity prevalence data in children and adolescents in Saudi Arabia are largely inconsistent. OBJECTIVES: This study analyzed and compared the prevalence of obesity among a national sample of children and adolescents across sexes, school grades, regions, and city types in Saudi Arabia using the Growth Charts for Saudi Children and Adolescents...
December 2023: Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal: SPJ: the Official Publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society