Determining the worldwide prevalence of obesity
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Reilly, John J.
Monyeki, Andries
El-Hamdouchi, Asmaa
Diouf, Adama
Somda, Serge A.
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Elsevier
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The NCD Risk Factor Collaboration
study (Dec 16, 2017, p 2627)
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is a
landmark description of the progress
of the obesity pandemic, but
substantially underestimates the scale
of the problem. The study
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defined
obesity using body-mass index (BMI)
in adults and BMI-for-age in children
and adolescents
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Reilly, J.J. et al. 2018. Determining the worldwide prevalence of obesity. Lancet, 391(10132):1773-1774. [https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30794-3]