Longitudinal association between body mass index and physical activity among adolescents with different parental risk: a parallel latent growth curve modeling approach

Parisa Naseri, Parisa Amiri, Somayeh Momenyan, Farid Zayeri, Mehrdad Karimi, Fereidoun Azizi

Presented by: Parisa Naseri

Research Center for Social Determinants of Health,

Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences,

Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Background

• Global statistics show that 1.9 billion and 600 million adults were, overweight and obese, respectively, and 2.16 billion and 1.12 billion adults are predicted to be overweight and obese, respectively.
• Iran has a high prevalence of obesity in recent decades; the prevalence of overweight and obesity was estimated to be 34.5% and 21.5%  in 2011, respectively.
•  The prevalence of childhood obesity is also increasing, the  prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents was 9.7% and 11.9%, respectively.