… the prevalence of overweight, obesity and central obesity levelled off in the United States? Trends, patterns, disparities, and future projections for the obesity epidemic

Y Wang, MA Beydoun, J Min, H Xue… - International journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… Women showed an uninterrupted increase in OB/OW prevalence since 1999, reaching
41.5… had the highest prevalence in women’s OB/SOB and men’s SOB. OB prevalence in boys …

The worldwide obesity epidemic

PT James, R Leach, E Kalamara… - Obesity research, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… Figure 1 provides our most recent preliminary estimates of the different prevalence rates of
overweight and obesity in middle-aged men and women (45 to 59 years of age) throughout …

The obesity epidemic

VA Catenacci, JO Hill, HR Wyatt - Clinics in chest medicine, 2009 - chestmed.theclinics.com
… fat, the prevalence of obesity has reached epidemic proportions and continues to … prevalence
of obesity more than doubled from 15% to 33% in adults and the prevalence of overweight

Worldwide epidemic of obesity

RN Haththotuwa, CN Wijeyaratne, U Senarath - Obesity and obstetrics, 2020 - Elsevier
… available epidemiological data on overweight and obesityEpidemiological data indicate
that the prevalence of obesity in … Spain revealed that the prevalence of obesity (ie, BMI≥30 kg/…

Overweight and obesity epidemic among children. Answer from European countries

I Lissau - International Journal of Obesity, 2004 - nature.com
… SURVEYS: This paper compares the two available published papers on the prevalence
of child and adolescent overweight and obesity in Europe. The first paper was published in …

[PDF][PDF] Review on epidemic of obesity

S Low, MC Chin… - Annals academy of …, 2009 - researchgate.net
… about obesity worldwide. We performed a review on the prevalence and trends of obesity
among … We reviewed the data on the prevalence of adult obesity and being overweight from the …

[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
… in overweight and obesity prevalence in the country. … the overweight/obesity epidemic in
Ghana as confirmed by the near 1.6 and 2.6 fold increase in overweight and obesity prevalence, …

Will all Americans become overweight or obese? Estimating the progression and cost of the US obesity epidemic

Y Wang, MA Beydoun, L Liang, B Caballero… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… We projected future prevalence and BMI distribution based on national survey data (National
Health and Nutrition Examination Study) collected between 1970s and 2004. Future …

Obesity: the worldwide epidemic

PT James - Clinics in dermatology, 2004 - Elsevier
BMI categories are thus used to develop plans for clinical management, to … obesity epidemic,
and to present comparative data from different countries. In fact the prevalence of obesity is …

Prevalence of overweight and obesity in Italy (2001–2008): is there a rising obesity epidemic?

R Micciolo, V Di Francesco, F Fantin, L Canal… - Annals of …, 2010 - Elsevier
… The obesity epidemic is one of the major issues in United … However, if for “epidemic” we
mean that in Italy obesity is steadily … prevalence of overweight and/or obesity are not increasing. …