SynthesiseLife2021
Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight.
Synthesis in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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Who cites it
63 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 139 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Impact of Sports Involvement on Body Image Perception and Ideals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Physical Activity and Body Image Perception in Adolescents: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Hypertension management in transition: gains, gaps, and growing challenges in a high-altitude multi-ethnic region of China (2019-2024).Annals of medicine · 2026Article
- Depression meets obesity: Co-occurrence patterns, temporal trends and socioeconomic correlates across 199 countries and territories.General psychiatry · 2026Article
- The "Agriculture and Diet: Value Added for Nutrition, Translation, and Adaptation in a Global Ecology" (ADVANTAGE) Project: An Overview of an Integrated Approach to Address a Complex Challenge.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- Synthetic pancreatic lipase inhibitors in obesity treatment: current updates onRSC medicinal chemistry · 2025Review
- Differences in the faecal microbiome of obese and non-obese pregnant women: a matched cohort study in Sweden.BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- Atherogenic Dyslipidemia and Its Association withInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
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- A Modeling Study for Hip Fracture Rates in Romania.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of digital health interventions in improving hypertensive outcomes among patients with uncontrolled hypertension: A systematic review.International journal of nursing sciences · 2025Review
- Global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and obesity, 1990-2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.Lancet (London, England) · 2025Article
- Shaping childhood obesity: behavioral and environmental risk factors associated with body mass index trajectories between 2 and 9 years in Samoan children.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025Article
- Editorial: Holistic approaches to understanding obesity and metabolic diseases in urban environments.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Editorial: Nutrition and sustainable development goal 10: reduced inequalities.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- General practitioner-centered rural obesity management: Design, protocol and baseline data of the German HAPpEN pragmatic trial.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- Prevalence of pre-clinical and clinical obesity in adults: Pooled analysis of 56 population-based national health surveys.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Beyond BMI: a comprehensive approach to pediatric obesity assessment.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Psychological Factors and Nutritional Status in Adolescence.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
3 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
1 author at 20 institutions in 105 countries.
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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.
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