Childhood overweight, obesity, and the metabolic syndrome in developing countries.

@article{Kelishadi2007ChildhoodOO,
  title={Childhood overweight, obesity, and the metabolic syndrome in developing countries.},
  author={Roya Kelishadi},
  journal={Epidemiologic reviews},
  year={2007},
  volume={29},
  pages={
          62-76
        }
}
The incidence of chronic disease is escalating much more rapidly in developing countries than in industrialized countries. A potential emerging public health issue may be the increasing incidence of childhood obesity in developing countries and the resulting socioeconomic and public health burden faced by these countries in the near future. In a systematic review carried out through an electronic search of the literature from 1950-2007, the author compared data from surveys on the prevalence of… 
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