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Obesity a growing problem in the Indo-Asian population
10-23-2006 · EurekAlert!Jafar and colleagues estimated the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Pakistan from data from the National Health Survey of Pakistan for 1990-1994. They found that 25 percent of the population of Pakistan would be classified as overweight or obese, and that 10 percent would be classified as obese.
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