Epidemiology of obesity
Obesity and overweight - World Health Organization (WHO)
About 16% of adults aged 18 years and older worldwide were obese in 2022. The worldwide prevalence of obesity more than doubled between 1990 and ...
The epidemiology of obesity - PubMed
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 Epidemiology of Obesity: A Big Picture - PMC
The epidemic of overweight and obesity presents a major challenge to chronic disease prevention and health across the life course around the world.
More than one billion people in the world are now living with obesity, nearly 880 million adults and 159 million children and adolescents aged 5-19 years.
Epidemiology of obesity - Wikipedia
Of adults who are overweight, 31% are obese. ... Increases in obesity have been seen most in urban settings. Since body fat can be measured in several ...
Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity Among Adults - CDC
This report provides the most recent national data for 2017–2018 on obesity and severe obesity prevalence among adults by sex, age, and race and Hispanic ...
Obesity: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Therapeutics - Frontiers
Obesity is a complex multifactorial disease that accumulated excess body fat leads to negative effects on health.
Obesity and Severe Obesity Prevalence in Adults - CDC
During August 2021–August 2023, the prevalence of obesity among adults in the United States was 40.3%. Obesity prevalence was highest in adults ...
The epidemiology of obesity - ScienceDirect.com
The worldwide prevalence rates of overweight and obesity have approximately doubled since 1980 to an extent that over one-third of the world's population is ...
Obesity: global epidemiology and pathogenesis - Nature
The prevalence of obesity has increased worldwide in the past ~50 years, reaching pandemic levels. Obesity represents a major health ...
Epidemiology of Obesity - SpringerLink
Obesity results from an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure. Factors that influence energy balance include the quantity ...
The Epidemiology of Obesity - Gastroenterology
Obesity varies by age and sex, and by race-ethnic group among adult women. A higher body weight is associated with an increased incidence of a number of ...
The epidemiology of obesity in reproduction - ScienceDirect.com
The reproductive consequences of obesity are variable and include but not exclusively menstrual disorders; fertility difficulties; recurrent miscarriages.
Epidemiology of Obesity | SpringerLink
Beyond the necessity of availability of food, evidence about causes of obesity is still very limited. However, studies have shown that obesity ' ...
Obesity - World Health Organization (WHO)
Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. A body mass index (BMI) over 25 is considered ...
Obesity Epidemiology - News-Medical
Causes of obesity. Among the risk factors of obesity, the prominent ones include increased intake of energy rich foods and decreased physical activity or ...
Epidemiology of Obesity and Diabetes and Their Cardiovascular ...
In the Nurses' Health Study, obesity was associated with a ≈2-fold higher risk (relative risk=1.9; 95% CI, 1.3–2.6) of coronary heart disease ( ...
The Epidemiology of Obesity - Gastroenterology Clinics
The prevalence of obesity was relatively low and stable between 1960 and 1980, but more than doubled from 15% in 1980 to 34% in 2006.
epidemiology of overweight and obesity: public health crisis or moral ...
This article evaluates four central claims made by those who are calling for intensifying the war on fat: that obesity is an epidemic; that overweight and ...
Projected U.S. State-Level Prevalence of Adult Obesity and Severe ...
Our projections show that the national prevalence of adult obesity and severe obesity will rise to 48.9% (95% confidence interval [CI], 47.7 to ...