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Nana Kwaku Mainoo

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Citations -  10564

Nana Kwaku Mainoo is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Overweight & Obesity. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 9171 citations.

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Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Marie Ng, +141 more
- 30 Aug 2014 - 
TL;DR: The global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980-2013 is estimated using a spatiotemporal Gaussian process regression model to estimate prevalence with 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs).
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Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Nicholas J Kassebaum, +352 more
- 13 Sep 2014 - 
TL;DR: Global rates of change suggest that only 16 countries will achieve the MDG 5 target by 2015, with evidence of continued acceleration in the MMR, and MMR was highest in the oldest age groups in both 1990 and 2013.
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Prevalence of Antiobesity Treatment and Weight-Inducing Antihyperglycemic Agents Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes in the United States.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors evaluated the use of antiobesity medications and antihyperglycemic agents that produce weight gain among patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus who qualify for National Institutes of Health guideline-recommended pharmacologic weight loss therapy.