Anthropometric measurements are the first step in determining the health status in children
and adolescents. Clinicians require standardized protocols for proper assessment and …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: There is limited information on overweight and obesity in
Saudi children and adolescents. The objective of this study was to establish the national …

Objective: To verify, through a systematic review, the accuracy of nutritional assessment in
children and adolescents using the length/height-for-age and BMI-for-age growth charts of …

Background Child growth is internationally recognized as an important indicator of
nutritional status and health in populations. This study was aimed to compare age-and …

Objective: Vitamin D deficiency is an unrecognized epidemic and a common health problem
worldwide. This study was conducted to evaluate the vitamin D status in children living in …

Objectives To investigate the prevalence of obesity among elementary school children and
to examine the association between obesity and caries activity in the mixed dentition stage …

Background: Childhood obesity has increased in Saudi Arabia over the past few decades.
However, a representative burden of obesity remains unclear, as most studies had relied on …

Background: Metabolic syndrome (MS) has become one of the major challenges to public
health worldwide due to its significant association with increased risk of developing type 2 …

Hail region of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has the highest adult obesity rates in the entire kingdom
and limited information is available about the prevalence and patterns of growth markers …

Background: Visceral adiposity index (VAI) is a novel gender-specific index based on waist
circumference (WC), BMI, and lipid parameters. Although VAI does not actually estimate …