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

Mariel M Finucane; Gretchen A Stevens; Melanie J Cowan; Goodarz Danaei; John K Lin; Christopher J Paciorek; Gitanjali M Singh; Hialy R Gutierrez; Yuan Lu; Adil N Bahalim; Farshad Farzadfar; Leanne M Riley; Majid Ezzati; Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group (Body Mass Index); Peter Bjerregaard

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62037-5

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

Mariel M Finucane
, Gretchen A Stevens
, Melanie J Cowan
, Goodarz Danaei
, John K Lin
, Christopher J Paciorek
, Gitanjali M Singh
, Hialy R Gutierrez
, Yuan Lu
, Adil N Bahalim
, Farshad Farzadfar
, Leanne M Riley
, Majid Ezzati
, Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group (Body Mass Index)
, Peter Bjerregaard

Center for Public health in Greenland

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Journal	The Lancet
Volume	377
Issue number	9765
Pages (from-to)	557-67
Number of pages	11
ISSN	0140-6736
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62037-5
Publication status	Published - 2011

Keywords

Adult
Bayes Theorem
Body Mass Index
Female
Health Surveys
Humans
Logistic Models
Male
World Health
Young Adult

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Finucane, M. M., Stevens, G. A., Cowan, M. J., Danaei, G., Lin, J. K., Paciorek, C. J., Singh, G. M., Gutierrez, H. R., Lu, Y., Bahalim, A. N., Farzadfar, F., Riley, L. M., Ezzati, M., Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group (Body Mass Index), & Bjerregaard, P. (2011). 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. The Lancet, 377(9765), 557-67. https://doi.org/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. / Finucane, Mariel M; Stevens, Gretchen A; Cowan, Melanie J et al.
In: The Lancet, Vol. 377, No. 9765, 2011, p. 557-67.

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