[HTML][HTML] Global epidemiology, health burden and effective interventions for elevated blood pressure and hypertension

B Zhou, P Perel, GA Mensah, M Ezzati - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2021 - nature.com
High blood pressure is one of the most important risk factors for ischaemic heart disease,
stroke, other cardiovascular diseases, chronic kidney disease and dementia. Mean blood …

Adipose tissue inflammation and metabolic dysfunction in obesity

T Kawai, MV Autieri, R Scalia - American Journal of …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Several lines of preclinical and clinical research have confirmed that chronic low-grade
inflammation of adipose tissue is mechanistically linked to metabolic disease and organ …

A 2022 update on the epidemiology of obesity and a call to action: as its twin COVID-19 pandemic appears to be receding, the obesity and dysmetabolism pandemic …

C Boutari, CS Mantzoros - Metabolism, 2022 - Elsevier
The WHO just released in May 2022 a report on the state of the obesity pandemic in Europe,
stating that 60% of citizens in the area of Europe are either overweight or obese, and …

[HTML][HTML] Incident type 2 diabetes attributable to suboptimal diet in 184 countries

M O'Hearn, L Lara-Castor, F Cudhea, V Miller… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The global burden of diet-attributable type 2 diabetes (T2D) is not well established. This risk
assessment model estimated T2D incidence among adults attributable to direct and body …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence, deaths and disability-adjusted-life-years (DALYs) due to type 2 diabetes and its attributable risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019 …

S Safiri, N Karamzad, JS Kaufman, AW Bell… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Aim To report the point prevalence, deaths and disability-adjusted-life-years (DALYs) due to
type 2 diabetes and its attributable risk factors in 204 countries and territories during the …

Heart disease and stroke statistics—2019 update: a report from the American Heart Association

EJ Benjamin, P Muntner, A Alonso, MS Bittencourt… - Circulation, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Summary Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the National
Institutes of Health and other government agencies, brings together in a single document the …

[HTML][HTML] Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the
proportion of the population who live in cities,. This has led to a widely reported view that …

The obesity transition: stages of the global epidemic

LM Jaacks, S Vandevijvere, A Pan… - The lancet Diabetes & …, 2019 - thelancet.com
The global prevalence of obesity has increased substantially over the past 40 years, from
less than 1% in 1975, to 6–8% in 2016, among girls and boys, and from 3% to 11% among …

The epidemiology of obesity

YC Chooi, C Ding, F Magkos - Metabolism, 2019 - Elsevier
Obesity is a complex multifactorial disease. The worldwide prevalence of overweight and
obesity has doubled since 1980 to an extent that nearly a third of the world's population is …

[HTML][HTML] Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

A Afshin, PJ Sur, KA Fay, L Cornaby, G Ferrara… - The lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Suboptimal diet is an important preventable risk factor for non-communicable
diseases (NCDs); however, its impact on the burden of NCDs has not been systematically …