Title
Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight
Date Issued
01 March 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Iurilli M.L.C.
Zhou B.
Bennett J.E.
Sophiea M.K.
Rodriguez-Martinez A.
Bixby H.
Solomon B.D.
Taddei C.
Danaei G.
Di Cesare M.
Stevens G.A.
Riley L.M.
Savin S.
Cowan M.J.
Bovet P.
Damasceno A.
Chirita-Emandi A.
Hayes A.J.
Ikeda N.
Jackson R.T.
Khang Y.H.
Laxmaiah A.
Liu J.
Saidi O.
Sebert S.
Sorić M.
Starc G.
Gregg E.W.
Abarca-Gómez L.
Abdeen Z.A.
Abdrakhmanova S.
Ghaffar S.A.
Rahim H.F.A.
Abu-Rmeileh N.M.
Garba J.A.
Acosta-Cazares B.
Adams R.J.
Aekplakorn W.
Afsana K.
Afzal S.
Agdeppa I.A.
Aghazadeh-Attari J.
Aguilar-Salinas C.A.
Agyemang C.
Ahmad M.H.
Ahmad N.A.
Ahmadi A.
Ahmadi N.
Ahmed S.H.
Ahrens W.
Aitmurzaeva G.
Ajlouni K.
Al-Hazzaa H.M.
Al-Lahou B.
Al-Raddadi R.
Alarouj M.
AlBuhairan F.
AlDhukair S.
Ali M.M.
Alkandari A.
Alkerwi A.
Allin K.
Alvarez-Pedrerol M.
Aly E.
Amarapurkar D.N.
Amiri P.
Amougou N.
Amouyel P.
Andersen L.B.
Anderssen S.A.
Ängquist L.
Anjana R.M.
Ansari-Moghaddam A.
Aounallah-Skhiri H.
Araújo J.
Ariansen I.
Aris T.
Arku R.E.
Arlappa N.
Aryal K.K.
Aspelund T.
Assah F.K.
Assunção M.C.F.
Aung M.S.
Auvinen J.
Mária Avdicová
Avi S.
Azevedo A.
Azimi-Nezhad M.
Azizi F.
Azmin M.
Babu B.V.
Bæksgaard Jørgensen M.
Baharudin A.
Bahijri S.
Baker J.L.
Balakrishna N.
Bamoshmoosh M.
Publisher(s)
eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
Abstract
From 1985 to 2016, the prevalence of underweight decreased, and that of obesity and severe obesity increased, in most regions, with significant variation in the magnitude of these changes across regions. We investigated how much change in mean body mass index (BMI) explains changes in the prevalence of underweight, obesity, and severe obesity in different regions using data from 2896 population-based studies with 187 million participants. Changes in the prevalence of underweight and total obesity, and to a lesser extent severe obesity, are largely driven by shifts in the distribution of BMI, with smaller contributions from changes in the shape of the distribution. In East and Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, the underweight tail of the BMI distribution was left behind as the distribution shifted. There is a need for policies that address all forms of malnutrition by making healthy foods accessible and affordable, while restricting unhealthy foods through fiscal and regulatory restrictions.
Volume
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nutrición, Dietética
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85103837539
PubMed ID
Source
eLife
ISSN of the container
2050084X
Sponsor(s)
We thank WHO country and regional offices and World Heart Federation for support in data identification and access. The NCD-RisC database was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Maria LC Iurilli was supported by a Medical Research Council studentship. Sylvain Sebert received funding by the European Commission with grant agreements 633595 and 874739, respectively, for the DynaHEALTH and LongITools projects. The following contributors have deceased: Konrad Jamrozik, Altan Onat, Robespierre Ribeiro, Michael Sjöström, Agustinus Soemantri, Jutta Stieber, and Dimitrios Trichopou-los. The list of authors shows their last affiliation.
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