Do overweight students have lower academic performance than their classmates? A pilot cross sectional study in a middle school in Tehran

Journal of Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Heshmat, Ramin ^a   Larijani, Fatemeh A ^b   Pourabbasi, Amir ^c   Pourabbasi, Ata ^d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Academy for Education Culture and Research   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; IRAN; LIPID ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE SCHOOL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84908099577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22516581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40200-014-0087-0     Document Type: Article

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