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Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
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Background In 2010, overweight and obesity were estimated to cause 3.4 million deaths, 3.9% of years of life lost, and 3.8% of DALYs globally. The rise in obesity has led to widespread calls for regular monitoring of changes in overweight and obesity prevalence in all populations. Comparative, up-to-date information on levels and trends is essential both to quantify population health effects and to prompt decision-makers to prioritize action. Methods We systematically identified surveys, reports, and published studies (n = 1,769) that included information on height and weight, both through physical measurements and self-reports. Mixed effects linear regression was used to correct for the bias in self-reports. Age-sex-country-year observations (n = 19,244) on prevalence of obesity and overweight were synthesized using a spatio-temporal Gaussian Process Regression model to estimate prevalence with 95% uncertainty intervals. Findings Globally, the proportion of adults with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or greater increased from 28.8% (95% UI: 28.4-29.3) in 1980 to 36.9% (36.3-37.4) in 2013 for men and from 29.8% (29.3-30.2) to 38.0% (37.5-38.5) for women. Increases were observed in both developed and developing countries. There have been substantial increases in prevalence among children and adolescents in developed countries, with 23.8% (22.9-24.7) of boys and 22.6% (21.7-23.6) of girls being either overweight or obese in 2013. The prevalence of overweight and obesity is also rising among children and adolescents in developing countries as well, rising from 8.1% (7.7-8.6) to 12.9% (12.3-13.5) in 2013 for boys and from 8.4% (8.1-8.8) to 13.4% (13.0-13.9) in girls. Among adults, estimated prevalence of obesity exceeds 50% among men in Tonga and women in Kuwait, Kiribati, Federated States of Micronesia, Libya, Qatar, Tonga, and Samoa. Since 2006, the increase in adult obesity in developed countries has stabilized. Interpretation Because of the established health risks and substantial increases in prevalence, obesity has become a major global health challenge. Contrary to other major global risks, there is little evidence of successful population-level intervention strategies to reduce exposure. Not only is obesity increasing, but there are no national success stories over the past 33 years. Urgent global action and leadership is required to assist countries to more effectively intervene.
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- Authors
- Ng, M., Fleming, T., Robinson, M., Thomson, B., Graetz, N., Margono, C., Mullany, E. C., Biryukov, S., Abbafati, C., Abera, S. F., Abraham, J. P., Abu-Rmeileh, N. M. E., Achoki, T., AlBuhairan, F. S., Alemu, Z. A., Alfonso, R., Ali, M. K., Ali, R., Guzman, N. A., Ammar, W., Anwari, P., Banerjee, A., Barquera, S., Basu, S., Bennett, D. A., Bhutta, Z., Blore, J., Cabral, N., Nonato, I. C., Chang, J.-C., Chowdhury, R., Courville, K. J., Criqui, M. H., Cundiff, D. K., Dabhadkar, K. C., Dandona, L., Davis, A., Dayama, A., Dharmaratne, S. D., Ding, E. L., Durrani, A. M., Esteghamati, A., Farzadfar, F., Fay, D. F. J., Feigin, V. L., Flaxman, A., Forouzanfar, M. H., Goto, A., Green, M. A., Gupta, R., Hafezi-Nejad, N., Hankey, G. J., Harewood, H. C., Havmoeller, R., Hay, S., Hernandez, L., Husseini, A., Idrisov, B. T., Ikeda, N., Islami, F., Jahangir, E., Jassal, S. K., Jee, S. H., Jeffreys, M., Jonas, J. B., Kabagambe, E. K., Khalifa, S. E. A. H., Kengne, A. P., Khader, Y. S., Khang, Y.-H., Kim, D., Kimokoti, R. W., Kinge, J. M., Kokubo, Y., Kosen, S., Kwan, G., Lai, T., Leinsalu, M., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liu, S., Logroscino, G., Lotufo, P. A., Lu, Y., Ma, J., Mainoo, N. K., Mensah, G. A., Merriman, T. R., Mokdad, A. H., Moschandreas, J., Naghavi, M., Naheed, A., Nand, D., Narayan, K. M. V., Nelson, E. L., Neuhouser, M. L., Nisar, M. I., Ohkubo, T., Oti, S. O., Pedroza, A., Prabhakaran, D., Roy, N., Sampson, U., Seo, H., Sepanlou, S. G., Shibuya, K., Shiri, R., Shiue, I., Singh, G. M., Singh, J. A., Skirbekk, V., Stapelberg, N. J. C., Sturua, L., Sykes, B. L., Tobias, M., Tran, B. X., Trasande, L., Toyoshima, H., van de Vijver, S., Vasankari, T. J., Veerman, J. L., Velasquez-Melendez, G., Vlassov, V. V., Vollset, S. E., Vos, T., Wang, C., Wang, X., Weiderpass, E., Werdecker, A., Wright, J. L., Yang, Y. C., Yatsuya, H., Yoon, J., Yoon, S.-J., Zhao, Y., Zhou, M., Zhu, S., Lopez, A. D., Murray, C. J. L., & Gakidou, E.
- Affiliations
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (US)
- Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
- Mekelle University (ET)
- King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (SA)
- Debre Markos University (ET)
- University of Washington (US)
- Emory University (US)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Ministry of Public Health (LB)
- United Nations Population Fund (US)
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- Stanford University (US)
- Aga Khan University (PK)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Universidade da Região de Joinville (BR)
- National Taiwan University (TW)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Public Health England (GB)
- University of Peradeniya (LK)
- Harvard University (US)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences (IR)
- Auckland University of Technology (NZ)
- National Center for Global Health and Medicine (JP)
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- Fortis Escorts Hospital (IN)
- The University of Western Australia (AU)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (MX)
- Birzeit University (PS)
- Brandeis University (US)
- National Institute of Health and Nutrition (JP)
- American Cancer Society (US)
- Ochsner Medical Center (US)
- Yonsei University (KR)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- Heidelberg University (DE)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- Supreme Council Of Health (QA)
- Jordan University of Science and Technology (JO)
- Seoul National University (KR)
- Northeastern University (US)
- Simmons University (US)
- Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NO)
- National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center (JP)
- Boston Medical Center (US)
- National Institute for Health Development (EE)
- Chinese Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CN)
- University of Bari Aldo Moro (IT)
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (US)
- University of Otago (NZ)
- University of Crete (GR)
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (BD)
- Ministry Of Health (FJ)
- Fred Hutch Cancer Center (US)
- Teikyo University (JP)
- African Population and Health Research Center (KE)
- Centre for Chronic Disease Control (IN)
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (IN)
- Digestive Disease Research Institute (IR)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FI)
- Heriot-Watt University (GB)
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- Griffith University (AU)
- National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (GE)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- New York University (US)
- Anjo Kosei Hospital (JP)
- Urho Kaleva Kekkonen Institute (FI)
- Columbia University (US)
- Shandong University (CN)
- Philipps University of Marburg (DE)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Fujita Health University (JP)
- Korea University (KR)
- Chongqing Medical University (CN)
- National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention (CN)
- Zhejiang University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Gakidou, Emmanuela
- ORCID
- Ng, Marie
- Thomson, Blake
- Graetz, Nicholas
- Abbafati, Cristiana
- Abera, Semaw Ferede
- Abraham, Jerry P
- Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M E
- Achoki, Tom
- AlBuhairan, Fadia S
- Alfonso, Rafael
- Ali, Mohammed K
- Ali, Raghib
- Ammar, Walid
- Anwari, Palwasha
- Banerjee, Amitava
- Basu, Sanjay
- Bennett, Derrick A
- Bhutta, Zulfiqar
- Blore, Jed
- Cabral, Norberto
- Chang, Jung-Chen
- Chowdhury, Rajiv
- Courville, Karen J
- Criqui, Michael H
- Cundiff, David K
- Dandona, Lalit
- Davis, Adrian
- Dharmaratne, Samath D
- Ding, Eric L
- Esteghamati, Alireza
- Farzadfar, Farshad
- Feigin, Valery L
- Flaxman, Abraham
- Forouzanfar, Mohammad H
- Goto, Atsushi
- Green, Mark A
- Hankey, Graeme J
- Harewood, Heather C
- Hay, Simon
- Husseini, Abdullatif
- Idrisov, Bulat T
- Ikeda, Nayu
- Islami, Farhad
- Jahangir, Eiman
- Jassal, Simerjot K
- Jee, Sun Ha
- Jeffreys, Mona
- Jonas, Jost B
- Kabagambe, Edmond K
- Khalifa, Shams Eldin Ali Hassan
- Khader, Yousef Saleh
- Khang, Young-Ho
- Kim, Daniel
- Kimokoti, Ruth W
- Kokubo, Yoshihiro
- Kosen, Soewarta
- Kwan, Gene
- Lai, Taavi
- Leinsalu, Mall
- Liang, Xiaofeng
- Liu, Shiwei
- Logroscino, Giancarlo
- Lotufo, Paulo A
- Lu, Yuan
- Mensah, George A
- Merriman, Tony R
- Mokdad, Ali H
- Moschandreas, Joanna
- Naghavi, Mohsen
- Naheed, Aliya
- Narayan, K M Venkat
- Neuhouser, Marian L
- Nisar, Muhammad Imran
- Ohkubo, Takayoshi
- Oti, Samuel O
- Prabhakaran, Dorairaj
- Roy, Nobhojit
- Sepanlou, Sadaf G
- Shibuya, Kenji
- Shiri, Rahman
- Shiue, Ivy
- Singh, Gitanjali M
- Singh, Jasvinder A
- Skirbekk, Vegard
- Stapelberg, Nicolas J C
- Sturua, Lela
- Sykes, Bryan L
- Tran, Bach X
- Trasande, Leonardo
- Vasankari, Tommi J
- Vos, Theo
- Wang, XiaoRong
- Weiderpass, Elisabete
- Werdecker, Andrea
- Wright, Jonathan L
- Yang, Y Claire
- Yatsuya, Hiroshi
- Yoon, Seok-Jun
- Zhao, Yong
- Zhou, Maigeng
- Zhu, Shankuan
- Murray, Christopher J L
- Gakidou, Emmanuela
- Venue
- The Lancet
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-08
- Volume
- 384
- Issue
- 9945
- Pages
- 766-781
- ISSN
- 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
- 0140-6736
- PMC
- PMC4624264
- OpenAlex
- W2163710303
- Semantic Scholar
- a08425b9eb5241904ac17edc533989c98a07b966
- Cited by
- 11,952
- References
- 69
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- FWCI
- 1228.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- Funders
- Vanderbilt University
- Simmons College
- Emory University
- University of Washington
- Brandeis University
- Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
- Wellcome Trust (095066)
- National Center for Global Health and Medicine
- Birzeit University
- Ochsner Health
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NF-SI-0512-10165)
- British Heart Foundation (RG/08/014/24067)
- University of Oxford
- University of Bristol
- South African Medical Research Council
- Public Health Foundation of India
- Universität Heidelberg
- Public Health England
- Seoul National University
- Yonsei University
- Jordan University of Science and Technology
- Karolinska Institutet
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services
- National Taiwan University
- University of Peradeniya
- Mekelle University
- King Abdullah International Medical Research Center
- Debre Markos University
- National Institutes of Health
- University of California, San Diego
- College of Medicine, Seoul National University
- Medical Research Council (MR/L003120/1)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (24590785)
- Norwegian Institute of Public Health
- National Institute on Aging (P30AG017253)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- National Cancer Institute (P50CA058223)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD050924)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Risks and Factors
- Keywords
- childhood obesity, adult obesity, overweight prevalence, obesity prevalence trends, body mass index, global prevalence estimates, spatio-temporal regression, disability-adjusted life years, years of life lost, developing countries, developed countries, sex differences in obesity, obesity prevention policy
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Child, Female, Humans, Male, Models, Theoretical, Obesity, Regression Analysis, Prevalence, Cost of Illness, Overweight
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