The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 4 February 2011doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62037-5
National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980:
systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants
Mariel M Finucane AB a *, Gretchen A Stevens DSc e *, Melanie J Cowan MPH f, Goodarz Danaei MD b, John K Lin AB c, Christopher J Paciorek PhD g, Gitanjali M Singh PhD c, Hialy R Gutierrez BS h, Yuan Lu MSc c, Adil N Bahalim MEng h, Farshad Farzadfar MD c, Leanne M Riley MSc f, Prof Majid Ezzati PhD c d i j , on behalf of the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group (Body Mass Index)†
Funding Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and WHO.
Website: http://bit.ly/dIW74X
"……Excess bodyweight is a major public health concern. However, few worldwide comparative analyses of long-term trends of body-mass index (BMI) have been done, and none have used recent national health examination surveys. We estimated worldwide trends in population mean BMI.
National, regional, and global trends in serum total cholesterol since 1980:
systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 321 country-years and 3·0 million participants
Farshad Farzadfar MD a *, Mariel M Finucane AM b *, Goodarz Danaei MD c, Pamela M Pelizzari ScB e, Melanie J Cowan MPH f, Christopher J Paciorek PhD b h, Gitanjali M Singh PhD a, John K Lin AB a, Gretchen A Stevens DSc g, Leanne M Riley MSc f, Prof Majid Ezzati PhD a d i j , on behalf of the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group (Cholesterol)†
Website: http://bit.ly/dIW74X
"…..Data for trends in serum cholesterol are needed to understand the effects of its dietary, lifestyle, and pharmacological determinants; set intervention priorities; and evaluate national programmes. Previous analyses of trends in serum cholesterol were limited to a few countries, with no consistent and comparable global analysis. We estimated worldwide trends in population mean serum total cholesterol…."
National, regional, and global trends in systolic blood pressure since 1980:
systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 786 country-years and 5·4 million participants
Goodarz Danaei MD a *, Mariel M Finucane AM b *, John K Lin AB c *, Gitanjali M Singh PhD c *, Christopher J Paciorek PhD b e, Melanie J Cowan MPH f, Farshad Farzadfar MD c, Gretchen A Stevens DSc g, Stephen S Lim PhD h, Leanne M Riley MSc f, Prof Majid Ezzati PhD c d i j , on behalf of the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group (Blood Pressure)†
Website: http://bit.ly/gAnvw5
"….Data for trends in blood pressure are needed to understand the effects of its dietary, lifestyle, and pharmacological determinants; set intervention priorities; and evaluate national programmes. However, few worldwide analyses of trends in blood pressure have been done. We estimated worldwide trends in population mean systolic blood pressure (SBP)…."
'Tsunami' Of Obesity Worldwide: Study.
"A 'tsunami of obesity' is unfurling across the world, resulting in a near-doubling of the numbers of dangerously overweight adults since 1980, doctors warned on Friday. More than half a billion men and women – nearly one in nine of all adults – are clinically obese, according to research by a team from Imperial College London, Harvard and the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2008, the latest year for which statistics were available, nearly one woman in seven and one man in 10 was obese, it found…." [Agence
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