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Obesity: epidemiology

Canada

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Obesity in Canada: snapshot [2009]

• Statistics Canada
  • Adult obesity in Canada: Measured height and weight [2005]

Ireland

• Department of Health and Children
  • Obesity - the policy challenges [2005]

New Zealand

• Social Report 2009
  • Obesity - Social Report 2009 [2009]

United States of America

• American Heart Association
  • Mortality, Health Outcomes, and Body Mass Index in the Overweight Range: A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association [2009]

• American Society for Nutrition
  • Can a small-changes approach help address the obesity epidemic? A report of the Joint Task Force of the American Society for Nutrition, Institute of Food Technologists, and International Food Information Council [2009]

• CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
  • Epidemiology of Obesity in the Western Hemisphere [2008]
  • U.S. Obesity Trends

• CDC National Center for Health Statistics
  • Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2008 [2010]
  • Overweight Prevalence

Articles in journals

• Annals Academy of Medicine Singapore
  • Review on epidemic of obesity [2009]

• Australian Family Physician
  • BMI of Australian general practice patients [2006]
  • A weighty issue [2006]

• BMC Public Health
  • The incidence of co-morbidities related to obesity and overweight: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2009]

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Obesity trends and determinant factors in Latin America [2003]

• Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
  • Ten Putative Contributors to the Obesity Epidemic [2009]

• Endocrine Reviews
  • Understanding and Addressing the Epidemic of Obesity: An Energy Balance Perspective [2006]

• Epidemiologic Reviews
  • The Global Epidemic of Obesity: An Overview [2007]

• International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Ethnic variability in adiposity and cardiovascular risk: the variable disease selection hypothesis [2009]
  • The epidemiology of overweight and obesity: public health crisis or moral panic? [2006]
  • The emerging epidemic of obesity in developing countries [2006]

• Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome in Developing Countries [2008]
  • The Epidemic of Obesity [2004]
  • Race/Ethnic Issues in Obesity and Obesity-Related Comorbidities [2004]

• Obesity
  • Epidemiological Study Designs to Investigate Gene–Behavior Interactions in the Context of Human Obesity [2008]

• Wikipedia
  • Epidemiology of obesity

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