Minou Sadat Mahmoud-Arabi

TL;DR: Unhealthy lifestyles make Iranian young people prone to chronic diseases later in life, and the interrelationship of dietary and PA behaviours should be considered when examining their health benefits.

TL;DR: The findings of this study warrant the necessity of paying special attention to monitoring of the time trends in child obesity based on uniform definitions, as well as to design programmes to prevent and control associated factors.

TL;DR: Comparison of the current reference curves with the British ones showed that in boys, the 5th and 50th percentile curves were similar in both studies, but the 95th percentile curve of the authors' study was higher than the British curves.

TL;DR: Considering the effect of modifiable lifestyle habits and birth weight on MS in youths, urgent public health approaches should be directed towards primordial and primary prevention of this rapidly growing problem.