Everyone seems to be talking about obesity and its impending effects on health at the population level. Investigators from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 Obesity Collaborators have now attempted to put some numbers on it. They pulled together data on 68.5 million individuals from 195 countries to estimate obesity in children and adults. Then, using sophisticated epidemiologic techniques, they related obesity with health outcomes.
The team estimated that about 110 million children and 600 million adults across the world in 2015 were obese, with prevalence of 5% and 12%, respectively. At all ages, women were more likely to be obese than men. From 1980 to 2015, the prevalence of obesity in children and adults doubled in 73 countries, while c…
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