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Burden of obesity in the Eastern Mediterranean region : findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study
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GBD 2015 Eastern Mediterranean Region Obesity Collaborators (Including: Mokdad, Ali H. and Gill, Paramjit). (2018) Burden of obesity in the Eastern Mediterranean region : findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study. International Journal of Public Health, 63 (Supplement 1). pp. 165-176. doi:10.1007/s00038-017-1002-5 ISSN 1661-8556.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-017-1002-5
Abstract
Objectives
We used the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2015 study results to explore the burden of high body mass index (BMI) in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR).
Methods
We estimated the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children (2–19 years) and adults (≥20 years) in 1980 and 2015. The burden of disease related to high BMI was calculated using the GBD comparative risk assessment approach.
Results
The prevalence of obesity increased for adults from 15.1% (95% UI 13.4–16.9) in 1980 to 20.7% (95% UI 18.8–22.8) in 2015. It increased from 4.1% (95% UI 2.9–5.5) to 4.9% (95% UI 3.6–6.4) for the same period among children. In 2015, there were 417,115 deaths and 14,448,548 disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) attributable to high BMI in EMR, which constitute about 10 and 6.3% of total deaths and DALYs, respectively, for all ages.
Conclusions
This is the first study to estimate trends in obesity burden for the EMR from 1980 to 2015. We call for EMR countries to invest more resources in prevention and health promotion efforts to reduce this burden.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Obesity -- Middle East, Obesity -- Mediterranean Region, Public health -- Middle East, Public health -- Mediterranean Region | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Public Health | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1661-8556 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | May 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 63 | ||||||||
| Number: | Supplement 1 | ||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 12 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 165-176 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00038-017-1002-5 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 August 2017 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 August 2017 | ||||||||
| Funder: | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
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