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ArticleScience advances2023

Emergence of the obesity epidemic preceding the presumed obesogenic transformation of the society.

Mads Møller Pedersen, Claus Thorn Ekstrøm, Thorkild I A Sørensen

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Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Caspase-6 Controls Lipid and Energy Metabolism in Diet-Induced Obesity.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  6. Food insecurity promotes adiposity in mice.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mads Møller PedersenSection of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0009-0003-3764-3376
Claus Thorn EkstrømSection of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Thorkild I A SørensenSection of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-4821-430X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The obesity epidemic, evolving in many countries since the 1970s, has been attributed to the widespread contemporary so-called obesogenic transformation of the societies, but what preceded the epidemic? Using quantile regression, we studied the trends by year of birth in the percentile distribution of body mass index (BMI = weight/height

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EpidemicsBody Mass IndexChildHumansMaleObesity

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PMID37703366
PMCPMC10499309

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