Dietary patterns and their associations with obesity among 4–9-year-old children in the United Arab Emirates: A cross-sectional study

• Farah Naja,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences, Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Nada Abbas,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences, Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Leila Itani,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Fatima Al Zahraa Chokor,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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• Leila Cheikh Ismail,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences, Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Ayesha S. Al Dhaheri,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

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• Lynda O’Neill,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, Nestlé Research, Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Samer Kharroubi,

  Roles Formal analysis

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

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• Habiba I. Ali,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

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• Maysm N. Mohamad,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

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• Nahla Hwalla ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nahla Hwalla, Lara Nasreddine

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nahla@aub.edu.lb (NH); ln10@aub.edu.lb (LN)

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

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• Lara Nasreddine

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nahla Hwalla, Lara Nasreddine

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nahla@aub.edu.lb (NH); ln10@aub.edu.lb (LN)

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

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

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