A structural equation modeling approach for the association of a healthy eating index with metabolic syndrome and cardio-metabolic risk factors among obese individuals

• Mahdieh Khodarahmi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Nutrition Research Center, Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran, Student Research Committee, Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

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• Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran, Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

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• Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Abbasalizad_m@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Drug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7036-6900

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