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Hazzaa M. Al-Hazzaa

Researcher at Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University

Publications -  110
Citations -  10081

Hazzaa M. Al-Hazzaa is an academic researcher from Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Overweight & Body mass index. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 93 publications receiving 7781 citations. Previous affiliations of Hazzaa M. Al-Hazzaa include King Saud University & Coventry University.

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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

Leandra Abarca-Gómez, +1024 more
- 16 Dec 2017 - 
TL;DR: Trends in mean BMI have recently flattened in northwestern Europe and the high-income English-speaking and Asia-Pacific regions for both sexes, southwestern Europe for boys, and central and Andean Latin America for girls, and by contrast, the rise in BMI has accelerated in east and south Asia forboth sexes, and southeast Asia for boys.
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A century of trends in adult human height

James Bentham, +790 more
- 26 Jul 2016 - 
TL;DR: The height differential between the tallest and shortest populations was 19-20 cm a century ago, and has remained the same for women and increased for men a century later despite substantial changes in the ranking of countries.
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Physical activity, sedentary behaviors and dietary habits among Saudi adolescents relative to age, gender and region

Hazzaa M. Al-Hazzaa, +4 more
- 21 Dec 2011 - 
TL;DR: The high prevalence of sedentary behaviors, physical inactivity and unhealthy dietary habits among Saudi adolescents is a major public health concern and there is an urgent need for national policy promoting active living and healthy eating and reducing sedentary behavior among children and adolescents in Saudi Arabia.
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Prevalence of physical activity and inactivity among Saudis aged 30-70 years. A population-based cross-sectional study.

Mansour M. Al-Nozha, +10 more
- 01 Apr 2007 - 
TL;DR: These findings reveal the sedentary nature of Saudi population, with the overwhelming majority of men and women did not reach the recommended physical activity levels necessary for promoting health and preventing diseases.
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Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez, +1361 more
- 07 Nov 2020 - 
TL;DR: Girls in South Korea, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some central Asian countries and boys in central and western Europe had the healthiest changes in anthropometric status over the past 3·5 decades because, compared with children and adolescents in other countries, they had a much larger gain in height than they did in BMI.