National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalences

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Stevens, Gretchen A ^a   Singh, Gitanjali M ^b   Lu, Yuan ^b   Danaei, Goodarz ^b   Lin, John K ^b   Finucane, Mariel M ^b   Bahalim, Adil N ^c   McIntire, Russell K ^c   Gutierrez, Hialy R ^c   Cowan, Melanie ^a   Paciorek, Christopher J ^d   Farzadfar, Farshad ^e   Riley, Leanne ^a   Ezzati, Majid ^f  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Independent Consultant   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Global health; Noncommunicable diseases; Obesity; Overweight; Population health; Prevalence; Risk transition

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBESITY; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED NATIONS; WEIGHT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BODY MASS; CONGO; COOK ISLANDS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MADAGASCAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAURU; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASIA;

EID: 84869180863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-10-22     Document Type: Article

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