ArticleJournal of global health reports2019
Obesity in the geriatric population - a global health perspective.
Article in Journal of global health reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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61 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.
- EffectS of Lifestyle Interventions in Older PEople With Obesity (Effective SLOPE): a Systematic Review With Network Meta-Analyses.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Pooled it
- The Effects of Exercise on Appetite in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Weighted Vest Use or Resistance Exercise to Offset Weight Loss-Associated Bone Loss in Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Exploring the impact of adult obesity in Spain: Insights from a systematic literature review.Obesity pillars · 2026Review
- Tirzepatide for Obesity in Adults ≥ 65 Years: A Post Hoc Analysis of the SURMOUNT and SUMMIT Clinical Trials.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2026Article
- Impact of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy on obesity-related comorbidities in patients over 65 years: a prospective comparative study.BMC surgery · 2026Article
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- Exploring the gut microbiota alterations with obesity in older adults: a case-control study in the context of Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) program.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2026Article
- Impact of overweight and obesity on gastric and colorectal cancer incidence in the older adults: a nationwide cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Deriving BMI-referenced, sex-specific fat mass index cutoff values in older Saudi adults: a cross-sectional secondary analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- A cross-national comparison of obesity using body mass index-for-age percentiles: results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging and the United States Health and Retirement Study.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Sex-specific All-cause Mortality is Associated with Adiposity in the Malaysian Elders Longitudinal Research (MELoR) Study.Annals of geriatric medicine and research · 2025Article
- Prevalence and determinants of general and abdominal obesity and overweight among older Iranian adults using 2016 and 2021 STEPS surveys.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Overweight and Obesity and Multimorbidity in Community-Living Older Persons in the Philippines.Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies · 2025Article
- The impact of lifestyle-based weight loss in older adults with obesity on muscle and bone health: a balancing act.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2025Review
- BMI-for-age percentile curves for older adults.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2025Article
- Central Adiposity Assessed with Body Roundness Index and Mortality: The Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra Prospective Cohort.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Liver, ageing and disease.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2025Review
- Causal impact of obesity class stratification and endometrial cancer subtypes: an integrated Mendelian randomization and Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 analysis.International journal of surgery (London, England) · 2025Article
- The Impact of Sarcopenic Obesity on Frailty, Cognition, and Function in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.Journal of frailty, sarcopenia and falls · 2025Article
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Abstract
The obesity crisis has been a major concern for public health organizations worldwide, and affects the geriatric population in parallel to that of the general population. Though geriatric obesity has been recognized in developed countries, such trends have also extended into developing countries due to disproportionate consumption of energy-dense low-cost food and increasingly sedentary lifestyles. The consequences of geriatric obesity include impaired physical function, decreased quality of life, institutionalization and death. The aim is to describe the obesity epidemic in both developed and developing countries, as well as highlight current surveillance efforts to monitor geriatric obesity on a global scale such as the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE study), which evaluates epidemiology trends in six different countries (China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia and South Africa). The impact of obesity on health, disease and systems worldwide will be described, as well as projections of future trends of this disease.
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