Authors
Ö Olafsson, S Schipf, D Zhu, AP Kengne, M Avdicová, P Tynelius, JE Wong, N Murphy, M Kersting, V Solfrizzi, P Russo, J He, D Rodrigues, S De-Henauw, RF Qasrawi, R Santos, J Sunyer, D De-Bacquer, I Janszky, SP Garnett, A Ghasemian, ARVR Horimoto, N Hwalla, A Mistretta, SR Masoodi, J Marrugat, D Romaguera, R Cooper, A Pilav, BS Ruiz-Betancourt, K Afsana, A Onat, Z Kulaga, S Rampal, CO Schmidt, E Kapantais, I Spiroski, A Evans, AC Pereira, J Mursu, CS Jérome, S Vale, Z Bhatti, AR Al-Othman, C Kelleher, VC Cardoso, C Osmond, TQ Bao, J Araújo, IR Hambleton, DS Andrade, V Grujic, H Van-Minh, HK So, E Viikari-Juntura, L Gates, JG Boggia, A Ramachandran, VF Sant'angelo, C Erem, JF Miquel, J Sánchez-Abanto, H Schargrodsky, RM Pop, A Schienkiewitz, SR Popovic, K De-Ridder, L Braeckevelt, S Malyutina, A Bugge, M Kavousi, G Jurak, T Lehtimäki, FD Fuchs, TFR de-Wit, ST Chiou, A Rubinstein, F Tanser, A Momenan, HS Kruger, N Mohammadifard, WA Neal, H Bettiol, MA Omar, CT Damsgaard, M Prashant, G Frontera, R Siantar, EE Ugel, N Michels, M Woodward, J Motta, R Kubinova, G D'arrigo, PD de-Oliveira, J Mi, ZA Abdeen, E D'orsi, D Noto, KM Jamil, BM Naidu, T Aspelund, S Chen, C Howitt, ND Nguyen, MS Pednekar, G Posch, RJ Wilks, A Trivedi, E Owusu-Dabo, J Benedics, M Benet, AC Carlsson, K Si-Ramlee, HS Sachdev, YT van-der-Schouw, A Kerimkulova, J Tarp, R Martin, FZ Laamiri, S Machi, D O'reilly, J Breckenkamp, M Hassapidou, H Aounallah-Skhiri, S Wu, E Manzato, E Sobngwi, CT Nguyen, H Pikhart, RA Fernandes, Y Guo, AM Batieha, J Námešná, H Chen, JE Bennett, A Blokstra, MJ Carvalho, AC de-León, RH Kumar, J Jóźwiak, ND Patel, I Huybrechts, M Bonaccio, YT Sung, S Koskinen, MCF Assunção, A Giwercman, OA Noboa, J Willeit
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Background
Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults.
Methods
We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height and weight on 128·9 million participants aged 5 years and older, including 31·5 million aged 5–19 years. We used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate trends from 1975 to 2016 in 200 countries for mean BMI and for prevalence of BMI in the following categories for children and adolescents aged 5–19 years: more than 2 SD below the median of the WHO growth reference for children and adolescents (referred to as moderate and severe underweight …
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