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- Title
The prevalence of overweight and obesity among Iranian military personnel: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Authors
Salimi, Yahya; Taghdir, Maryam; Sepandi, Mojtaba; Karimi Zarchi, Ali-Akbar
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>The overweight and obesity among military personnel, as an occupational group, beside the health issues, might affect their military performance. A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted to estimate the pool prevalence of overweight and obesity among Iranian military personnel.<bold>Methods: </bold>The national databases including Science Information Database, MagIran, and the following international databases; Web of Science, Medline via PubMed, and Scopus were searched, up to December 2017, for relevant published studies without time limitation.<bold>Results: </bold>Totally,1431 studies were reterived and 10 studies included in meta-analysis. The pooled prevalence of overweight and obesity were 41% (95%CI:26, 57%) and 13% (95%CI:10, 17%), respectively. In the subgroup analyses, a lower and higher prevalence of overweight was reported in the ground (12%) and Navy (69%) forces military, recpectively. For the obesity, the air forces had the lowest prevalence (11%) and the ground and Navy forces military had highest prevalence (15%). The prevalence of overweight and obesity were slightly higher in studies conducted after 2014.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>Our findings suggest a high prevalence of overweight and obesity in the military personnel as a high-risk occupational group. Owing to the high observed heterogeneity among the included studies, large representative studies are needed to estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the military personnel.
- Subjects
IRAN; OBESITY; MILITARY personnel; DISEASE prevalence
- Publication
BMC Public Health, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1471-2458
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1186/s12889-019-6484-z