Health effects of overweight and obesity in 195 countries over 25 years

Afshin, Ashkan and Forouzanfar, Mohammad H. and Reitsma, Marissa B. and Sur, Patrick and Estep, Kara and Lee, Alex and Marczak, Laurie and Mokdad, Ali H. and Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar and Naghavi, Mohsen and Salama, Joseph S. and Vos, Theo and Abate, Kalkidan H. and Abbafati, Cristiana and Ahmed, Muktar B. and Al-Aly, Ziyad and Alkerwi, Ala’a and Al-Raddadi, Rajaa and Amare, Azmeraw T. and Amberbir, Alemayehu and Amegah, Adeladza K. and Amini, Erfan and Amrock, Stephen M. and Anjana, Ranjit M. and Ärnlöv, Johan and Asayesh, Hamid and Banerjee, Amitava and Barac, Aleksandra and Baye, Estifanos and Bennett, Derrick A. and Beyene, Addisu S. and Biadgilign, Sibhatu and Biryukov, Stan and Bjertness, Espen and Boneya, Dube J. and Campos-Nonato, Ismael and Carrero, Juan J. and Cecilio, Pedro and Cercy, Kelly and Ciobanu, Liliana G. and Cornaby, Leslie and Damtew, Solomon A. and Dandona, Lalit and Dandona, Rakhi and Dharmaratne, Samath D. and Duncan, Bruce B. and Eshrati, Babak and Esteghamati, Alireza and Feigin, Valery L. and Fernandes, João C. and Fürst, Thomas and Gebrehiwot, Tsegaye T. and Gold, Audra and Gona, Philimon N. and Goto, Atsushi and Habtewold, Tesfa D. and Hadush, Kokeb T. and Hafezi-Nejad, Nima and Hay, Simon I. and Horino, Masako and Islami, Farhad and Kamal, Ritul and Kasaeian, Amir and Katikireddi, Srinivasa V. and Kengne, Andre P. and Kesavachandran, Chandrasekharan N. and Khader, Yousef S. and Khang, Young-Ho and Khubchandani, Jagdish and Kim, Daniel and Kim, Yun J. and Kinfu, Yohannes and Kosen, Soewarta and Ku, Tiffany and Defo, Barthelemy Kuate and Kumar, G. Anil and Larson, Heidi J. and Leinsalu, Mall and Liang, Xiaofeng and Lim, Stephen S. and Liu, Patrick and Lopez, Alan D. and Lozano, Rafael and Majeed, Azeem and Malekzadeh, Reza and Malta, Deborah C. and Mazidi, Mohsen and McAlinden, Colm and McGarvey, Stephen T. and Mengistu, Desalegn T. and Mensah, George A. and Mensink, Gert B. M. and Mezgebe, Haftay B. and Mirrakhimov, Erkin M. and Mueller, Ulrich O. and Noubiap, Jean J. and Obermeyer, Carla M. and Ogbo, Felix A. and Owolabi, Mayowa O. and Patton, George C. and Pourmalek, Farshad and Qorbani, Mostafa and Rafay, Anwar and Rai, Rajesh K. and Ranabhat, Chhabi L. and Reinig, Nikolas and Safiri, Saeid and Salomon, Joshua A. and Sanabria, Juan R. and Santos, Itamar S. and Sartorius, Benn and Sawhney, Monika and Schmidhuber, Josef and Schutte, Aletta E. and Schmidt, Maria I. and Sepanlou, Sadaf G. and Shamsizadeh, Moretza and Sheikhbahaei, Sara and Shin, Min-Jeong and Shiri, Rahman and Shiue, Ivy and Roba, Hirbo S. and Silva, Diego A. S. and Silverberg, Jonathan I. and Singh, Jasvinder A. and Stranges, Saverio and Swaminathan, Soumya and Tabarés-Seisdedos, Rafael and Tadese, Fentaw and Tedla, Bemnet A. and Tegegne, Balewgizie S. and Terkawi, Abdullah S. and Thakur, J. S. and Tonelli, Marcello and Topor-Madry, Roman and Tyrovolas, Stefanos and Ukwaja, Kingsley N. and Uthman, Olalekan A. and Vaezghasemi, Masoud and Vasankari, Tommi and Vlassov, Vasiliy V. and Vollset, Stein E. and Weiderpass, Elisabete and Werdecker, Andrea and Wesana, Joshua and Westerman, Ronny and Yano, Yuichiro and Yonemoto, Naohiro and Yonga, Gerald and Zaidi, Zoubida and Zenebe, Zerihun M. and Zipkin, Ben and Murray, Christopher J. L.. (2017) Health effects of overweight and obesity in 195 countries over 25 years. The New England Journal of Medicine, 377 (1). pp. 13-27.

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Abstract

Although the rising pandemic of obesity has received major attention in many countries, the effects of this attention on trends and the disease burden of obesity remain uncertain. We analyzed data from 68.5 million persons to assess the trends in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adults between 1980 and 2015. Using the Global Burden of Disease study data and methods, we also quantified the burden of disease related to high body-mass index (BMI), according to age, sex, cause, and BMI in 195 countries between 1990 and 2015. In 2015, a total of 107.7 million children and 603.7 million adults were obese. Since 1980, the prevalence of obesity has doubled in more than 70 countries and has continuously increased in most other countries. Although the prevalence of obesity among children has been lower than that among adults, the rate of increase in childhood obesity in many countries has been greater than the rate of increase in adult obesity. High BMI accounted for 4.0 million deaths globally, nearly 40% of which occurred in persons who were not obese. More than two thirds of deaths related to high BMI were due to cardiovascular disease. The disease burden related to high BMI has increased since 1990; however, the rate of this increase has been attenuated owing to decreases in underlying rates of death from cardiovascular disease. The rapid increase in the prevalence and disease burden of elevated BMI highlights the need for continued focus on surveillance of BMI and identification, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based interventions to address this problem. (Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.).

Faculties and Departments:	09 Associated Institutions > Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) 09 Associated Institutions > Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) > Former Units within Swiss TPH > Health Systems and Policies (de Savigny)
UniBasel Contributors:	Fürst, Thomas
Item Type:	Article, refereed
Article Subtype:	Research Article
Publisher:	Massachusetts Medical Society
ISSN:	0028-4793
e-ISSN:	1533-4406
Note:	Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
Identification Number:	doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1614362 pmid: 28604169 isi: 000404730000005
Last Modified:	09 Apr 2019 15:06
Deposited On:	19 Oct 2017 09:58

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