National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants

M. Finucane, Mariel; A Stevens, Gretchen; Cowan, Melanie; Danaei, Goodarz; K. Lin, John; Paciorek, Christopher; M Singh, Gitanjali; Gutierrez, Hialy; Lu, Yuan; N Bahalim, Adil; Farzadfar, Farshad; M Riley, Leanne; Ezzati, Majid

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(10)62037-5

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National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants

Published in The Lancet • Feb 1, 2011

Authors:

Mariel M. Finucane

Gretchen A Stevens

Melanie Cowan

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Excess bodyweight is a major public health concern. However, few worldwide comparative analyses of long-term trends of body-mass index (BMI) have been done, and none have used recent national health examination surveys. We estimated worldwide trends in population mean BMI. METHODS: We es...

Subject

Epidemiology

Body mass index

Environmental health

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