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Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 popula...

Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 popula...

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Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

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Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

Publisher

Elsevier

Journal title

The Lancet (British edition), 2016, Vol.387 (10026), p.1377-1396

Language

English

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Elsevier

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Contents

Background Underweight and severe and morbid obesity are associated with highly elevated risks of adverse health outcomes. We estimated trends in mean body-mass index (BMI), which characterises its population distribution, and in the prevalences of a complete set of BMI categories for adults in all countries. Methods We analysed, with use of a cons...

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Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

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TN_cdi_swepub_primary_oai_swepub_ki_se_505610

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_swepub_primary_oai_swepub_ki_se_505610

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ISSN

0140-6736,1474-547X

E-ISSN

1474-547X

DOI

10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30054-X