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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

Journal article published in 2016 by Risk Factor Collaboration Ncd Ncd, Ac de Leon, Tfr de Wit, Yt van der Schouw, Igm van Valkengoed, Eleonora d'Orsi, Giovanni de Gaetano, Maria del Cristo Rodriguez-Perez, Renata Nunes dos Santos, Julio Zuniga Cisneros, Mariachiara Di Cesare, James Bentham, Gretchen A. Stevens, Bin Zhou, Yuan Lu and other authors.
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Abstract

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 consistent protocol, population-based studies that had measured height and weight in adults aged 18 years and older. We applied a Bayesian hierarchical model to these data to estimate trends from 1975 to 2014 in mean BMI and in the prevalences of BMI categories (