Association of all-cause mortality with overweight and obesity using standard body mass index categories: a systematic review and meta-analysis

KM Flegal, BK Kit, H Orpana, BI Graubard - Jama, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Estimates of the relative mortality risks associated with normal weight,
overweight, and obesity may help to inform decision making in the clinical setting. Objective …

Effect of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation on sugars intake and dental caries: an umbrella review of a global perspective

M Hajishafiee, K Kapellas, S Listl, M Pattamatta… - BMC Public Health, 2023 - Springer
Background As part of the Global Strategy on Oral health, the World Health Organization
(WHO) is exploring cost-effective interventions for oral health, including taxation on sugar …

Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of …

C Guo, GBD 2021 Risk Factors Collaborators - The Lancet, 2024 - hub.hku.hk
Background Understanding the health consequences associated with exposure to risk
factors is necessary to inform public health policy and practice. To systematically quantify the …

Effect of calorie labelling in the out-of-home food sector on adult obesity prevalence, cardiovascular mortality, and social inequalities in England: a modelling study

Z Colombet, E Robinson, C Kypridemos… - The Lancet Public …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background England implemented a menu calorie labelling policy in large, out-of-home
food businesses in 2022. We aimed to model the likely policy impact on population-level …

Lifestyle interventions for cardiometabolic health

F Rutters, NR den Braver, J Lakerveld… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors such as poor diets and physical inactivity account for most of
the cardiometabolic disease (CMD) burden, including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular …

Obesity in children

N Nagpal, MJ Messito, M Katzow… - Pediatrics in …, 2022 - publications.aap.org
Child obesity is widely prevalent, and general pediatricians play an important role in
identifying and caring for patients with obesity. Appropriate evaluation and treatment require …

Are teenagers 'drowning'in sports and energy drinks? The need for upstream and downstream interventions

S Watt, T A. Dyer, Z Marshman - British Dental Journal, 2023 - nature.com
Sports and energy drinks are consumed regularly by adults, children and young people
(CYP). The dental and wider health implications of their frequent consumption pose a …

Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of …

M Brauer, GA Roth, AY Aravkin, P Zheng, KH Abate… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background Understanding the health consequences associated with exposure to risk
factors is necessary to inform public health policy and practice. To systematically quantify the …

[HTML][HTML] National taxation on sugar-sweetened beverages and its association with overweight, obesity, and diabetes

M Sassano, C Castagna, L Villani, G Quaranta… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been linked to
several adverse health outcomes, thus many countries introduced taxation to reduce it …

An exploration of stakeholder views and perceptions on taxing tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages in Ghana

A Singh, K Smith, M Hellowell, DD Logo, R Marten… - BMJ Global …, 2023 - gh.bmj.com
Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for nearly 43% of Ghana's all-
cause mortality. Unhealthy commodities (such as alcohol, sugar and tobacco) are an …