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G. Danaei

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The global cardiovascular risk transition: associations of four metabolic risk factors with national income, urbanization, and Western diet in 1980 a…

2013

Background— It is commonly assumed that cardiovascular disease risk factors are associated with affluence and Westernization. We investigated the associations of body mass index (BMI), fasting plasma glucose, systolic blood pressure, and serum total cholesterol with national income, Western diet, and, for BMI, urbanization in 1980 and 2008. Methods and Results— Country-level risk factor estimates for 199 countries between 1980 and 2008 were from a previous systematic analysis of population-based data. We analyzed the associations between risk factors and per capita national income, a measure of Western diet, and, for BMI, the percentage of the population living in urban areas. In 1980, the…

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National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalences

2012

medicine.medical_specialtyPediatricsSettore MED/09 - Medicina InternaOverweight Obesity Prevalence Population health Risk transition Global health Noncommunicable diseasesEpidemiologyGlobal healthPopulation healthOverweightlcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informaticsOverweight; Obesity; Prevalence; Population health; Risk transition; Global health; Noncommunicable diseasesEpidemiologyNoncommunicable diseasesGlobal healthPrevalenceMedicineObesityobesity; overweightRisk transitionbusiness.industryResearchPublic healthlcsh:Public aspects of medicinePopulation healthPublic Health Environmental and Occupational Healthlcsh:RA1-1270Sciences bio-médicales et agricolesOverweightmedicine.diseaseObesitylcsh:R858-859.7medicine.symptombusinessMale obesityBody mass indexDemography
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