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ReviewPreventive medicine reports2024

The global burden of overweight-obesity and its association with economic status, benefiting from STEPs survey of WHO member states: A meta-analysis.

A N M Shamsul Islam, Hafiza Sultana, Md Nazmul Hassan Refat, Zaki Farhana, Anton Abdulbasah Kamil, Mohammad Meshbahur Rahman

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Review in Preventive medicine reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6 authors.

A N M Shamsul IslamDepartment of Public Health & Hospital Administration, National Institute of Preventive & Social Medicine (NIPSOM), Mohakhali, 1212 Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Hafiza SultanaDepartment of Health Education, National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM), Mohakhali, 1212 Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Md Nazmul Hassan RefatDepartment of Public Health & Hospital Administration, National Institute of Preventive & Social Medicine (NIPSOM), Mohakhali, 1212 Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Zaki FarhanaBangladesh Bank-The Central Bank of Bangladesh, Bangladesh.
Anton Abdulbasah KamilDepartment of Business Administration, Istanbul Gelisim University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Mohammad Meshbahur RahmanDepartment of Biostatistics, National Institute of Preventive & Social Medicine (NIPSOM), Mohakhali, 1212 Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: The World Health Organization (WHO) 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs target 3.4) identifies non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as a key challenge for sustainable development. As one of the major NCD risks, here, we estimated the prevalence of overweight/obesity in adults and assessed country-economic variations using Methods: The latest STEPwise approach to NCD risk factor surveillance (STEPS) report of WHO member states studied on overweight/obesity from 2000 to 2020 were reviewed and related data were assessed further. The prevalence of overweight/obesity was pooled using the random effects model. The subgroup analysis and Results: Out of 73 studies with 469,766 participants analyzed, the highest overweight/obesity prevalence was found in American Samoa (93.5 %), while Democratic People's Republic of Korea had the lowest prevalence (4.4 %). The overall weighted pooled prevalence of overweight/obesity regardless of countries economic status was 37.0 % [95 % CI: 33 %-42 %]. There was significant heterogeneity in the prevalence of overweight/obesity (I2 = 99.91 %; p < 0.001). Subgroup analysis revealed a higher prevalence in high-income countries [60 %; 95 % CI: 47 %-72 %]. Meta-regression revealed a significant (p = 0.001) association and a 14 % increase chance of having overweight/obesity with increasing economic status. Conclusion: The prevalence of overweight/obesity is high worldwide, especially in high-income countries that demands a large-scale awareness campaigns and effective initiatives to control overweight/obesity and the associated risk factors of adults of these countries.

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Meta-analysisNCDs riskOverweight and ObesityPrevalenceSTEPs survey

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