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Obesity: epidemiology

 

Australia

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

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Overweight and obesity in Australia: an updated birth cohort analysis [2020]
  • A framework for monitoring overweight and obesity in Australia [2020]
  • Data sources for monitoring overweight and obesity in Australia [2019]
  • Overweight and obesity rates across Australia 2014–15 [2018]
  • Overweight and obesity in Australia: a birth cohort analysis [2017]
  • A picture of overweight and obesity in Australia [2017]

• Nutrients
  • The Australian Paradox: A Substantial Decline in Sugars Intake over the Same Timeframe that Overweight and Obesity Have Increased [2011]

• WA Health, Government of Western Australia
  • The burden and cost of excess body mass in Western Australian adults and children [2020]

Bangladesh

• BMJ Open
  • Differences in prevalence and associated factors of underweight and overweight/obesity according to rural–urban residence strata among women of reproductive age in Bangladesh: evidence from a cross-sectional national survey [2020]

Brazil

• Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
  • Obesity Epidemic in Brazil and Argentina: A Public Health Concern [2014]

• PLoS ONE
  • Gender, time use and overweight and obesity in adults: Results of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) [2018]

Canada

• BMJ Open
  • Prevalence of age-specific and sex-specific overweight and obesity in Ontario and Quebec, Canada: a cross-sectional study using direct measures of height and weight [2018]

• CMAJ Open
  • Current and predicted prevalence of obesity in Canada: a trend analysis [2014]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Trends and projections of obesity among Canadians [2015]
  • Obesity in Canada [2011]

• Statistics Canada
  • Body weight and obesity

China

• American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Prevalence and Secular Trends in Obesity Among Chinese Adults, 1991–2011 [2015]

• American Journal of Public Health
  • Prevalence of Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity Among Reproductive-Age Women and Adolescent Girls in Rural China [2016]

• BMC Public Health
  • The prevalence and increasing trends of overweight, general obesity, and abdominal obesity among Chinese adults: a repeated cross-sectional study [2019]

• Obesity Reviews
  • Overweight Dynamics in Chinese Children and Adults [2014]
  • Secular trends in the prevalence of general and abdominal obesity among Chinese adults, 1993–2009 [2012]

Cuba

• Population Health Metrics
  • Inequality of weight status in urban Cuba: 2001–2010 [2021]

Developing countries

• Nutrition Reviews
  • The Global Nutrition Transition: The Pandemic of Obesity in Developing Countries [2012]

East Africa

• African Health Sciences
  • Analysis of main risk factors contributing to obesity in the region of East Africa: meta-analysis [2020]

Ecuador

• American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • The double burden of undernutrition and excess body weight in Ecuador [2014]

Europe

• Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
  • Assessment of epidemiological obesity among adults in EU countries [2019]

• Endocrine
  • Changes in prevalence of obesity and high waist circumference over four years across European regions: the European male ageing study (EMAS) [2016]

• European Association for the Study of Obesity
  • Monitoring the Obesity Epidemic into the 21st Century - Weighing the Evidence [2013]

• Obesity Facts
  • Forecasting Future Trends in Obesity across Europe: The Value of Improving Surveillance [2018]

• SAGE Open Medicine
  • Getting to grips with the obesity epidemic in Europe [2016]

France

• Scientific Reports
  • Evolution of the prevalence of obesity in the adult population in France, 2013–2016: the Constances study [2021]

Gambia

• BMJ Open
  • The silent epidemic of obesity in The Gambia: evidence from a nationwide, population-based, cross-sectional health examination survey [2020]

Germany

• BMC Geriatrics
  • Prevalence and determinants of overweight and obesity in old age in Germany [2015]

• Obesity Facts
  • Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Rise of Adult Obesity: A Time-Trend Analysis of National Examination Data from Germany, 1990–2011 [2019]
  • Changes in Waist Circumference among German Adults over Time - Compiling Results of Seven Prospective Cohort Studies [2016]

Ghana

• BMC Public Health
  • Overweight and obesity epidemic in Ghana—a systematic review and meta-analysis [2016]
  • Double burden of malnutrition: increasing overweight and obesity and stall underweight trends among Ghanaian women [2015]

India

• BMC Public Health
  • Do trends in the prevalence of overweight by socio-economic position differ between India’s most and least economically developed states? [2019]

• BMJ Open
  • Trends in the socioeconomic patterning of overweight/obesity in India: a repeated cross-sectional study using nationally representative data [2018]

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • Prevalence of generalized & abdominal obesity in urban & rural India- the ICMR - INDIAB Study (Phase-I) [ICMR - INDIAB-3] [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Forecasting the prevalence of overweight and obesity in India to 2040 [2020]

International

• Demographic and Health Surveys
  • Nutrition

• Lancet
  • Global, regional and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults 1980-2013: A systematic analysis [2014]

• PharmacoEconomics
  • The Epidemiology of Obesity: A Big Picture [2015]

Iran

• Acta Medica Iranica
  • Investigation of the Prevalence of Obesity in Iran: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Study [2015]

• BMC Public Health
  • The prevalence of overweight and obesity among Iranian military personnel: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]

• Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
  • Changes in Obesity Odds Ratio among Iranian Adults, since 2000: Quadratic Inference Functions Method [2016]

• Middle East Journal of Digestive Diseases
  • Trends of Obesity in Iranian Adults from 1990s to late 2000s; a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2013]

Japan

• Journal of Epidemiology
  • Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and the Prevalence of Underweight, Overweight or Obesity in a General Japanese Population: NIPPON DATA2010 [2018]

• Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology
  • Monitoring Obesity Trends in Health Japan 21 [2015]

• Journal of Occupational Health
  • Five-year cumulative incidence of overweight and obesity, and longitudinal change in body mass index in Japanese workers: The Japan Epidemiology Collaboration on Occupational Health Study [2019]

Kuwait

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence of overweight and obesity, and associations with socio-demographic factors in Kuwait [2021]

• Journal of Obesity
  • A Review of Adult Obesity Prevalence, Trends, Risk Factors, and Epidemiologic Methods in Kuwait [2013]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Lancet Global Health
  • The shift of obesity burden by socioeconomic status between 1998 and 2017 in Latin America and the Caribbean: a cross-sectional series study [2019]

Lebanon

• BMC Public Health
  • Trends in overweight and obesity in Lebanon: evidence from two national cross-sectional surveys (1997 and 2009) [2012]

Libya

• Libyan Journal of Medicine
  • Obesity in Libya: a review [2012]

Low and middle income countries

• Obesity Reviews
  • New dynamics in global obesity facing low- and middle-income countries [2013]

Luxembourg

• BMC Research Notes
  • Socioeconomic inequality and obesity prevalence trends in luxembourg, 1995-2007 [2012]

Malawi

• PLoS ONE
  • Multilevel analysis of unhealthy bodyweight among women in Malawi: Does urbanisation matter? [2021]

Maldives

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence and associated factors of underweight, overweight and obesity among women of reproductive age group in the Maldives: Evidence from a nationally representative study [2020]

Mexico

• BMC Public Health
  • Time trends and sex differences in associations between socioeconomic status indicators and overweight-obesity in Mexico (2006–2012) [2015]

• Global Health Action
  • Regional-level estimation of expected years of life lost attributable to overweight and obesity among Mexican adults [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • Educational Inequalities in Obesity among Mexican Women: Time-Trends from 1988 to 2012 [2014]

Netherlands

• Geospatial Health
  • Geographic clustering and region-specific determinants of obesity in the Netherlands [2020]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Understanding Excess Body Weight: New Zealand Health Survey [2015]

Pakistan

• Journal of Ayub Medical College Abbottabad
  • Obesity, An Emerging Epidemic in Pakistan - A Review of Evidence [2016]

Panama

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence of obesity in Panama: some risk factors and associated diseases [2015]

Peru

• Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy
  • Parity and Overweight/Obesity in Peruvian Women [2017]

Poland

• European Journal of Public Health
  • Secular trends in BMI and the prevalence of obesity in young Polish males from 1965 to 2010 [2014]

Portugal

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence of general and abdominal obesity in Portugal: comprehensive results from the National Food, nutrition and physical activity survey 2015–2016 [2018]
  • Differing trends in the association between obesity and self-reported health in Portugal and Switzerland. Data from national health surveys 1992-2007 [2012]

Republic of Korea

• PLoS ONE
  • Sex-specific role of education on the associations of socioeconomic status indicators with obesity risk: A population-based study in South Korea [2018]

• World Journal of Men's Health
  • Obesity in Korean Men: Results from the Fourth through Sixth Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (2007~2014) [2016]

Russia

• Obesity Reviews
  • Overweight and Obesity in the Russian Population: Prevalence in Adults and Association with Socioeconomic Parameters and Cardiovascular Risk Factors [2019]

Saudi Arabia

• Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy
  • Obesity and Associated Factors — Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2013 [2014]

South Africa

• BMC Obesity
  • Obesity trends and risk factors in the South African adult population [2015]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Socioeconomic Inequalities in Adult Obesity Prevalence in South Africa: A Decomposition Analysis [2014]

South Asia

• Nutrients
  • Obesity and Dyslipidemia in South Asians [2013]

Southern Cone

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence, Distributions and Determinants of Obesity and Central Obesity in the Southern Cone of America [2016]

Spain

• International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Unconditional quantile regressions to determine the social gradient of obesity in Spain 1993–2014 [2016]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Public Health
  • Overweight and obesity among women: analysis of demographic and health survey data from 32 Sub-Saharan African Countries [2016]

Switzerland

• Obesity Facts
  • From Undernutrition to Overnutrition: The Evolution of Overweight and Obesity among Young Men in Switzerland since the 19th Century [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • Socioeconomic, Temporal and Regional Variation in Body Mass Index among 188,537 Swiss Male Conscripts Born between 1986 and 1992 [2014]

Syria

• Vascular Health and Risk Management
  • CVD and obesity in transitional Syria: a perspective from the Middle East [2012]

Tunisia

• Population Health Metrics
  • Abdominal vs. overall obesity among women in a nutrition transition context: geographic and socio-economic patterns of abdominal-only obesity in Tunisia [2015]

Uganda

• BMC Obesity
  • Prevalence and correlates of abdominal obesity among adults in Uganda: findings from a national cross-sectional, population based survey 2014 [2018]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Spatial Distribution of Underweight, Overweight and Obesity among Women and Children: Results from the 2011 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey [2013]

• Obesity Science & Practice
  • Trend in overweight and obesity among women of reproductive age in Uganda: 1995–2016 [2019]

United Kingdom

• BMC Public Health
  • Unevenly distributed: A systematic review of the health literature about socioeconomic inequalities in adult obesity in the United Kingdom [2012]

• British Journal of General Practice
  • Epidemiology of adult overweight recording and management by UK GPs: a systematic review [2017]

• NHS Digital
  • Statistics on Obesity, Physical Activity and Diet

• PLoS Medicine
  • How Has the Age-Related Process of Overweight or Obesity Development Changed over Time? Co-ordinated Analyses of Individual Participant Data from Five United Kingdom Birth Cohorts [2015]

• Scottish Government
  • Obesity Indicators: Monitoring Progress for the Prevention of Obesity Route Map - December 2016 report [2016]

United Arab Emirates

• Journal of Obesity
  • The Epidemiology and Economic Burden of Obesity and Related Cardiometabolic Disorders in the United Arab Emirates: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis [2018]

Uruguay

• American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Double burden of undernutrition and obesity in Uruguay [2014]

United States of America

• American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Prevalence and Trends in Lifetime Obesity in the U.S., 1988–2014 [2017]
  • Obesity Among U.S.- and Foreign-Born Blacks by Region of Birth [2015]

• BMC Obesity
  • Obesity trends by industry of employment in the United States, 2004 to 2011 [2016]

• BMJ
  • Trends in obesity and adiposity measures by race or ethnicity among adults in the United States 2011-18: population based study [2021]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Obesity Prevalence Among Adults Living in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties — United States, 2016 [2018]
  • Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults, by Household Income and Education — United States, 2011–2014 [2017]
  • Overweight Prevalence
  • Data & Statistics | Overweight & Obesity
  • Adult Obesity Facts

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • The Prevalence of Overfat Adults and Children in the US [2017]

• Gastroenterology Clinics of North America
  • Obesity epidemiology trends by race/ethnicity, gender, and education: National Health Interview Survey, 1997–2012 [2016]

• New England Journal of Medicine
  • Simulation of Growth Trajectories of Childhood Obesity into Adulthood [2017]

• Obesity
  • Regional Disparities in Obesity Prevalence in the United States: A Spatial Regime Analysis [2014]

• Obesity Reviews
  • Obesity and Mortality: Are the Risks Declining? Evidence from Multiple Prospective Studies in the U.S [2014]

• PLoS ONE
  • Redrawing the US Obesity Landscape: Bias-Corrected Estimates of State-Specific Adult Obesity Prevalence [2016]
  • Change in Obesity Prevalence across the United States Is Influenced by Recreational and Healthcare Contexts, Food Environments, and Hispanic Populations [2016]

• Population Health Metrics
  • Measuring and tracking obesity inequality in the United States: evidence from NHANES, 1971-2014 [2016]

Zimbabwe

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Trends in Prevalence and Related Risk Factors of Overweight and Obesity among Women of Reproductive Age in Zimbabwe, 2005–2015 [2019]

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