Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32129-3

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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2017-12-16 and is currently open access. It has received 4317 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Underweight & Childhood obesity.

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TL;DR: The proposed cut off points, which are less arbitrary and more internationally based than current alternatives, should help to provide internationally comparable prevalence rates of overweight and obesity in children.

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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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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

Citations

Dietary Patterns and Association with Obesity of Children Aged 6⁻17 Years in Medium and Small Cities in China: Findings from the CNHS 2010⁻2012.

Targeting Carbohydrates and Polyphenols for a Healthy Microbiome and Healthy Weight.

National trends in total cholesterol obscure heterogeneous changes in HDL and non-HDL cholesterol and total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio : a pooled analysis of 458 population-based studies in Asian and Western countries

Pediatric obesity: Current concepts.

Prevalence of Abdominal Obesity in China: Results from a Cross-Sectional Study of Nearly Half a Million Participants.

References

Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey

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

Development of a WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents

Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries

Obesity in children and young people: a crisis in public health.

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