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Does spending more time on electronic screen devices determine the weight outcomes in obese and normal weight Saudi Arabian children?

Hmidan A. Alturki, Denise S.K. Brookes and Peter S.W. Davies
Saudi Medical Journal January 2020, 41 (1) 79-87; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.1.24786
Hmidan A. Alturki
From Child Health Research Centre (Alturki, Davies), Centre for Children’s Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland; from the General Directorate for Research Grants (Alturki), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Faculty of Health (Brookes), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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Denise S.K. Brookes
From Child Health Research Centre (Alturki, Davies), Centre for Children’s Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland; from the General Directorate for Research Grants (Alturki), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Faculty of Health (Brookes), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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Peter S.W. Davies
From Child Health Research Centre (Alturki, Davies), Centre for Children’s Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland; from the General Directorate for Research Grants (Alturki), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Faculty of Health (Brookes), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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vol. 41 no. 1 79-87
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.1.24786
PubMed 
31915799

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 4, 2019
  • Accepted November 24, 2019
  • Published online January 1, 2020.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Hmidan A. Alturki, M.Nut, PhD⇑,
  2. Denise S.K. Brookes, PhD and
  3. Peter S.W. Davies, PhD, R.Nutr
  1. From Child Health Research Centre (Alturki, Davies), Centre for Children’s Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland; from the General Directorate for Research Grants (Alturki), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Faculty of Health (Brookes), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Hmidan A. Alturki, Child Health Research Centre, Centre for Children’s Health Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. E-mail: hmidan.alturki{at}uqconnect.edu.au ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4359-063X
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