Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1 , 2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3 – 6 . Here we use 2,009 ...

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Published in:	Nature (London) Vol. 569; no. 7755; pp. 260 - 264
Main Authors:	Bixby, Honor, Bentham, James, Zhou, Bin, Di Cesare, Mariachiara, Paciorek, Christopher J., Bennett, James E., Taddei, Cristina, Stevens, Gretchen A., Rodriguez-Martinez, Andrea, Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M., Khang, Young-Ho, Sorić, Maroje, Gregg, Edward W., Miranda, J. Jaime, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A., Savin, Stefan, Sophiea, Marisa K., Iurilli, Maria L. C., Solomon, Bethlehem D., Cowan, Melanie J., Riley, Leanne M., Danaei, Goodarz, Bovet, Pascal, Chirita-Emandi, Adela, Hambleton, Ian R., Hayes, Alison J., Ikeda, Nayu, Kengne, Andre P., Laxmaiah, Avula, Li, Yanping, McGarvey, Stephen T., Mostafa, Aya, Neovius, Martin, Starc, Gregor, Zainuddin, Ahmad A., Abarca-Gómez, Leandra, Abdeen, Ziad A., Abdrakhmanova, Shynar, Abdul Ghaffar, Suhaila, Abdul Hamid, Zargar, Abubakar Garba, Jamila, Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M., Acosta-Cazares, Benjamin, Adams, Robert J., Aekplakorn, Wichai, Afsana, Kaosar, Agdeppa, Imelda A., Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A., Agyemang, Charles, Ahmad, Mohamad Hasnan, Ahmad, Noor Ani, Ahmadi, Naser, Ahmadvand, Alireza, Ahrens, Wolfgang, Ajlouni, Kamel, AlBuhairan, Fadia, AlDhukair, Shahla, Al-Hazzaa, Hazzaa M., Ali, Mohamed M., Ali, Osman, Alkerwi, Ala’a, Al-Othman, Amani Rashed, Al-Raddadi, Rajaa, Alvarez-Pedrerol, Mar, Aly, Eman, Amarapurkar, Deepak N., Amouyel, Philippe, Amuzu, Antoinette, Andersen, Lars Bo, Anderssen, Sigmund A., Ängquist, Lars H., Anjana, Ranjit Mohan, Ansari-Moghaddam, Alireza, Aounallah-Skhiri, Hajer, Araújo, Joana, Ariansen, Inger, Aris, Tahir, Arku, Raphael E., Arlappa, Nimmathota, Aryal, Krishna K., Aspelund, Thor, Assah, Felix K., Assunção, Maria Cecília F., Aung, May Soe, Auvinen, Juha, Avdicová, Mária, Azevedo, Ana, Azizi, Fereidoun, Azmin, Mehrdad, Babu, Bontha V., Baharudin, Azli, Bahijri, Suhad, Baker, Jennifer L., Balakrishna, Nagalla, Bamoshmoosh, Mohamed, Banach, Maciej, Bandosz, Piotr, Banegas, José R., Barbagallo, Carlo M., Barceló, Alberto
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 2019 Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:	692/308/174 692/499 Adolescent Adult Adults Afdeling Humane voeding Age Factors Aged Aged, 80 and over Allmänmedicin Bias Body height Body Mass Index Calories Collaboration Developed Countries - statistics & numerical data Developing Countries - statistics & numerical data Diet, Healthy - statistics & numerical data Epidemics Female Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa och socialmedicin Food food system General Medicine Geographic Mapping health Health Sciences Human Nutrition Human Nutrition & Health Human Nutrition (HNE) Humane Voeding Humane Voeding & Gezondheid Humanities and Social Sciences Humans Hälsovetenskap Income Individ och samhälle VIDSOC Individual and Society VIDSOC International Health Internationell hälsa Leerstoelgroep Toxicologie Letter Life Sciences Low income groups Male Malnutrition Medical and Health Sciences Medicin och hälsovetenskap Middle Aged middle-income countries multidisciplinary Nutrition Nutrition and Dietetics Nutritional Status Näringslära och dietkunskap Obesity Obesity - epidemiology physical-activity pooled analysis Population Population studies Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine Rural areas Rural Health - statistics & numerical data Rural Population - statistics & numerical data Santé publique et épidémiologie Science Science (multidisciplinary) Sex Factors Sub-department of Toxicology systematic analysis Systematic review Toxicologie Toxicology Trends Undernutrition urban Urban areas Urban Health - statistics & numerical data Urban Population - statistics & numerical data Urbanization weight Women worldwide trends Young Adult Middle East Asia Africa Oceania Latin America
ISSN:	0028-0836, 1476-4687, 1476-4687
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