The prevalence of overweight and obesity among Iranian military personnel: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Subgroup analysis of overweight and obesity prevalence based on location of the study samples, year of studies publication, type of military force, and quality of the included studies

	Overweight		p-value*	Obesity		p-value*
	Pooled prevalence	95% CI	p-value*	Pooled prevalence	95% CI	p-value*
Location of the study samples
Center of Iran (Tehran)	0.35	0.17, 0.56	p < 0.001	0.15	0.11, 0.19	p < 0.001
South of Iran	0.55	0.43, 0.67	p < 0.001	0.14	0.11, 0.17	p < 0.001
National	0.35	0.31, 0.38	p < 0.001	0.06	0.05, 0.08	p < 0.001
Year of the studies publication
Before 2104	0.40	0.28, 0.52	p < 0.001	0.10	0.06, 0.16	p < 0.001
After 2014	0.43	0.20, 0.67	p < 0.001	0.15	0.11, 0.20	p < 0.001
Type of military force
All forces	0.40	0.29, 0.51	p < 0.001	0.13	0.07, 0.21	p < 0.001
Ground force	0.12	0.12, 0.13	p < 0.001	0.15	0.11, 0.19	p < 0.001
Aire forces	0.42	0.39, 0.45	p < 0.001	0.11	0.09, 0.13	p < 0.001
Navy	0.69	0.59, 0.78	p < 0.001	0.15	0.09, 0.24	p < 0.001
Quality of the included studies
High	0.50	0.38, 0.63	p < 0.001	0.14	0.07, 0.23	p < 0.001
Intermediate	0.48	0.46, 0.50	p < 0.001	0.14	0.11, 0.17	p < 0.001
Low	0.24	0.07, 0.47	p < 0.001	0.11	0.09, 0.13	p < 0.001

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