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National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalence

Author: Gretchen A Stevens, Gitanjali M Singh, Yuan Lu et al.
Organisation: School of Public Health, Imperial College London
Publish Date: 2012
Country: Global
Sector: Health
Method: Creative thinking
Theme: Food
Type: Article
Language: English
Tags: Overweight, Obesity, Prevalence, Population health, Risk transition, Global health, Noncommunicable diseases

Estimated trends between 1980 and 2008 in overweight and obesity prevalence and their uncertainty for adults 20 years of age and older in 199 countries and territories. Data were from a previous study, which used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate mean body mass index (BMI) based on published and unpublished health examination surveys and epidemiologic studies. Here, we used the estimated mean BMIs in a regression model to predict overweight and obesity prevalence by age, country, year, and sex. The uncertainty of the estimates included both those of the Bayesian hierarchical model and the uncertainty due to cross-walking from mean BMI to overweight and obesity prevalence
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