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Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

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Global burden of obesity

ey0015.15-2 | Global burden of obesity | ESPEYB15

15.2 Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years

AR Jones , MJ Tovee , LR Cutler , KN Parkinson , LJ Ells , V Araujo-Soares , MS Pearce , KD Mann , D Scott , JM Harris , AJ Adamson

To read the full abstract: N Engl J Med 2017;377:13-27Other estimates of the global trends and projections in obesity have been published. In this regard, the current analysis provides similar, albeit equally worrying, data on the trends towards more obesity across all regions of the world. Moreover, a particular advance of this current study, which was funded by the Bill and Melind...