Nima Motamed, Farhad Zamani, Mansooreh Maadi, Hossein Ajdarkosh, Farzin Roozafzai, Hossein Keyvani, Hossein Poustchi, Ramin Shakeri, G Hossein Ashrafi, Dhayaneethie Perumal, Behnam Rabiee, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Mahmoodreza Khoonsari, Zahedin Kheyri, Masoud Reza Sohrabi, Azam Doustmohammadian, Bahareh Amirkalali, Fahimeh Safarnezhad Tameshkel, Esmaeel Gholizadeh, Seyed Hamzeh Hosseini, Mohammad Hadi Karbalaie Niya
BACKGROUND: Iran is facing an epidemiological transition with the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases, such as obesity-related disorders and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). We conducted a population-based prospective study to assess the prevalence and incidence rates of CVDs and obesity-related metabolic disorders and to evaluate the predictive ability of various CVD risk assessment tools in an Iranian population. METHOD: We enrolled 5,799 participants in Amol, a city in northern Iran, in 2009-2010 and carried out the first repeated measurement (RM) after seven years (2016-2017)...
2024: Frontiers in Endocrinology