“…The study found among university students from 22 low and middle income and emerging economy countries a prevalence of overweight or obese that compares with previous studies in transitional societies [5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30]. In agreement with a number of studies mainly from Asia [14,15,22], it was found that male gender was associated with overweight/obesity in those populations.…”