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    Relationship between breastfeeding and obesity in childhood

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2012
    A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the weight status and the relationship of infant-feeding variables, birth weight and birth order with BMI in a group of Iranian children. Five hundred and eleven students of both sexes at the first grade in elementary schools (aged 7 years) were recruited randomly from all 19 educational districts of Tehran.
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    Delaying Artemisinin resistance in India

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Artemisinin resistance has been called the greatest threat to malaria control, and could lead to loss of the hard-won gains of the last decade. That success has been dramatic: since 2000, malaria deaths have been halved, due in no small part to the widespread use of artemisinins in artemisinin-combination therapies (ACTs).
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    Prevalence of overweight, obesity, and abdominal obesity among urban Saudi adolescents: gender and regional variations

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2014
    The nutrition transition with associated lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases has rapidly reached many developing countries, including Saudi Arabia. Therefore, the objective of this study is to examine the prevalence of overweight, obesity, and abdominal obesity among Saudi adolescents.
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    Vitamin B12 levels of subjects aged 0-24 year(s) in Konya, Turkey

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2014
    Research reports indicate that vitamin B12 levels show racial differences, which suggests that using the reference ranges of varied populations may lead to inaccurate results. This study aims to determine normal serum levels of vitamin B12 among children and young people in the Konya region of Turkey.
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    Major dietary patterns in relation to stunting among children in Tehran, Iran

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2013
    To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no information is available to link major dietary patterns to stunting during childhood, although dietary patterns are associated with chronic diseases. This study is conducted to determine the relationship between major dietary patterns and stunting in the first grade pupils of Tehran in 2009.
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    Malnutrition among 3 to 5 years old children in Baghdad city, Iraq: a cross-sectional study

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2013
    The unstable geopolitical situation in Iraq since 2003 still affects the health of people, especially children. Several factors may indirectly affect a child’s nutritional status. The main aim of this study is to identify factors contributing to malnutrition among 3 to 5 years old children in Baghdad city, Iraq.
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    Comparative analysis of population transition in India and China

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2007
    India and China are the only two billion plus countries in the world today. According to the 2004 revision of the world population prospects prepared by the United Nations, the two countries accounted for more than 37 per cent of the world population as of 2005 which suggests that population growth trends in the two countries have strong bearings on the world population growth.
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    Ownership structure and financial performance in Islamic banks: does bank ownership matter?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    Studies that have attempted to explain the performance of Islamic banks are limited compared to the abundant literature on this issue for conventional banks. The current study aims to investigate empirically the relation between ownership structure and performance in a panel data sample of 53 Islamic Banks scattered over 15 countries for a five-year period (2005 to 2009).
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    Promoting populationwide salt reduction in the South-East Asia Region: current status and future directions

    World Health Organization WHO File, 2013
    This paper highlights key actions that countries can take to reduce salt intake as a population-based strategy to prevent and control hypertension and associated cardiovascular disease.
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    Innovation and additionality for development finance: looking at Asia

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2013
    The issue of introducing innovation in financing came into discussion at Monterrey in response to the recurring failure of most developed countries to live up to their commitment to enhance flows of official development assistance (ODA) to the developing countries in order to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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