Obesity among Ghanaian women: past prevalence, future incidence

FAA Dake - Public Health, 2013 - Elsevier
Over the last three decades, obesity has become a major public health problem globally. Its
prevalence has more than doubled since 1980. 1 In 2008, the World Health Organization …

Prevalence of obesity in women of Accra, Ghana

RB Duda, R Darko, J Seffah, RM Adanu… - African Journal of Health …, 2007 - ajol.info
Abstract The Women\'s Health Study of Accra, Ghana measured the burden of obesity and
obesitylinked illnesses in urban women. This is a Cross-sectional community based study …

[HTML][HTML] 10-year level, trends and socio-demographic disparities of obesity among Ghanaian adults—A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

MT Yussif, AE Morrison, RA Annan - PLOS Global Public Health, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The double burden of malnutrition has assumed severer forms in Low and Middle Income
Countries (LMICs) arising from sharper increases in prevalence rates of overweight and …

[HTML][HTML] Double burden of malnutrition: increasing overweight and obesity and stall underweight trends among Ghanaian women

DT Doku, S Neupane - BMC public health, 2015 - Springer
Background Overweight and obesity are among the leading causes of mortality globally, and
although previously they were mostly prevalent in developed countries, recent scanty …

[HTML][HTML] Examining the risk factors for overweight and obesity among women in Ghana: A multilevel perspective

KA Asosega, EN Aidoo, AO Adebanji, E Owusu-Dabo - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Overweight/obesity prevalence is on the increase in epidemic proportions across Low-and
Middle-Income countries (LMICs). The public health burden associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Overweight and obesity epidemic in Ghana—a systematic review and meta-analysis

R Ofori-Asenso, AA Agyeman, A Laar, D Boateng - BMC public health, 2016 - Springer
Background In many low and middle income countries (LMICs), the distribution of adulthood
nutritional imbalance is shifting from a predominance of undernutrition to overnutrition. This …

Sociodemographic correlates of obesity among Ghanaian women

FAA Dake, EO Tawiah, DM Badasu - Public health nutrition, 2011 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveTo examine the sociodemographic correlates of obesity among Ghanaian women.
DesignThe 2003 and 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey data sets were used to …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity-a preventable disease

F Ofei - Ghana medical journal, 2005 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Obesity is a common and preventable disease of clinical and public health importance. It is
often a major risk factor for the development of several non-communicable diseases …

[HTML][HTML] The epidemiology of obesity in Ghana

RB Biritwum, J Gyapong, G Mensah - Ghana medical journal, 2005 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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[HTML][HTML] Socio-demographic trends in overweight and obesity among parous and nulliparous women in Ghana

DA Tuoyire, A Kumi-Kyereme, DT Doku - BMC obesity, 2016 - Springer
Background Overweight and obesity are among the leading threats to global health because
of their association with increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Much of the research on …