Obesity has long been classified as a global epidemic — and new data published in The Lancet journal spotlights how much ...
Overweight and obesity rates in adults ... with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of ...
By 2050, over half of the adults and one third of the youth may be obese. Experts have called for urgent action to prevent ...
Obesity levels worldwide are growing relentlessly ... from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the ...
“The unprecedented global epidemic of overweight and obesity is a profound tragedy ... stock.adobe.com A spokesperson for the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and ...
A higher BMI is consistently associated with longer operative times and increased complications across a wide range of ...
For Emmanuela Gakidou, lead author of the study and professor at the University of Washington, "this unprecedented pandemic of overweight and obesity represents a monumental failure of our societies." ...
Overweight and obesity rates in adults ... with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle. Among high-income countries, America had the highest ...