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Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years
New England Journal of Medicine · 2017 · Vol. 377(1) · pp. 13–27
The GBD 2015 Obesity Collaborators✉(Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation)
Abstract
The rapid increase in the prevalence and disease burden of elevated BMI highlights the need for continued focus on surveillance of BMI and identification, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based interventions to address this problem. (Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.).
Obesity, Physical Activity, DietNutritional Studies and DietBirth, Development, and HealthMedicineObesityOverweightBody mass indexDiseaseDisease burdenEnvironmental healthDeveloped countryMortality rateDemography
MeSH terms
AdultCardiovascular DiseasesChildFemaleHumansMaleObesityGlobal HealthBody Mass IndexPrevalenceOverweightPediatric Obesity
Funding
- Harvard University
- Universitetet i Tromsø
- Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Northumbria University
- University of Massachusetts Boston
- University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
- Public Health Wales
- University of Warwick
- Imperial College London
- University College London
- University of Oxford
- University of Glasgow
- South African Medical Research Council
- Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
- Seoul National University
- Jordan University of Science and Technology
- Inyuvesi Yakwazulu-Natali
- Umeå Universitet
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
- Universitetet i Bergen
- North-West University
- Universitetet i Oslo
- Universidade de São Paulo
- Universidade do Porto
- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
- University of Cape Town
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- University of Peradeniya
- Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- College of Medicine, Seoul National University
- Medical Research Council
- Warwick Medical School
- Norwegian Institute of Public Health
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