Nutrition and Health in Arab Adolescents (NaHAR): Study protocol for the determination of ethnic-specific body fat and anthropometric cut-offs to identify metabolic syndrome

• Lara Nasreddine ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ln10@aub.edu.lb

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-8218

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• Mohamad Adel Bakir ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamad Adel Bakir, Tareq Al-Ati, Abeer Salman Alzaben, Rawhieh Barham, Nahla Bawazeer, Elie-Jacques Fares, Kholoud Hammad, Pernille Kaestel, John J. Reilly, Mandy Taktouk

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Medicine, Atomic Energy Commission, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic

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• Tareq Al-Ati ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamad Adel Bakir, Tareq Al-Ati, Abeer Salman Alzaben, Rawhieh Barham, Nahla Bawazeer, Elie-Jacques Fares, Kholoud Hammad, Pernille Kaestel, John J. Reilly, Mandy Taktouk

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Food and Nutrition Program, Environment and Life Sciences Research Institute Center, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Safat, Kuwait

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• Abeer Salman Alzaben ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamad Adel Bakir, Tareq Al-Ati, Abeer Salman Alzaben, Rawhieh Barham, Nahla Bawazeer, Elie-Jacques Fares, Kholoud Hammad, Pernille Kaestel, John J. Reilly, Mandy Taktouk

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Rawhieh Barham ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamad Adel Bakir, Tareq Al-Ati, Abeer Salman Alzaben, Rawhieh Barham, Nahla Bawazeer, Elie-Jacques Fares, Kholoud Hammad, Pernille Kaestel, John J. Reilly, Mandy Taktouk

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Ministry of Health, Amman, Jordan

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• Nahla Bawazeer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamad Adel Bakir, Tareq Al-Ati, Abeer Salman Alzaben, Rawhieh Barham, Nahla Bawazeer, Elie-Jacques Fares, Kholoud Hammad, Pernille Kaestel, John J. Reilly, Mandy Taktouk

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Elie-Jacques Fares ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamad Adel Bakir, Tareq Al-Ati, Abeer Salman Alzaben, Rawhieh Barham, Nahla Bawazeer, Elie-Jacques Fares, Kholoud Hammad, Pernille Kaestel, John J. Reilly, Mandy Taktouk

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Kholoud Hammad ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamad Adel Bakir, Tareq Al-Ati, Abeer Salman Alzaben, Rawhieh Barham, Nahla Bawazeer, Elie-Jacques Fares, Kholoud Hammad, Pernille Kaestel, John J. Reilly, Mandy Taktouk

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Medicine, Atomic Energy Commission, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic

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• Pernille Kaestel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamad Adel Bakir, Tareq Al-Ati, Abeer Salman Alzaben, Rawhieh Barham, Nahla Bawazeer, Elie-Jacques Fares, Kholoud Hammad, Pernille Kaestel, John J. Reilly, Mandy Taktouk

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2769-4666

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• John J. Reilly ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamad Adel Bakir, Tareq Al-Ati, Abeer Salman Alzaben, Rawhieh Barham, Nahla Bawazeer, Elie-Jacques Fares, Kholoud Hammad, Pernille Kaestel, John J. Reilly, Mandy Taktouk

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Physical Activity for Health Group, School of Psychological Sciences and Health, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

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• Mandy Taktouk

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamad Adel Bakir, Tareq Al-Ati, Abeer Salman Alzaben, Rawhieh Barham, Nahla Bawazeer, Elie-Jacques Fares, Kholoud Hammad, Pernille Kaestel, John J. Reilly, Mandy Taktouk

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

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