We map and rank the countries with the highest adult obesity rates, measured through Body Mass Index (BMI) calculations. Data is sourced from the World Health Organization, current up to 2022. Ranked: The 15 Countries With an Obesity Problem Small island nations in the Pacific have some of ...
Which Countries Smoke the Most? In Nauru, nearly half of the population aged 15+ uses a tobacco product, the highest in the world. The island also has a high obesity rate, and nearly one-third of the population suffers from diabetes, due to poor nutritional variety in the food supply. ...
In 2021, French Polynesia had the highest prevalence of diabetes worldwide, with around 27 percent of the population suffering from the disease. Diabetes mellitus, or simply, diabetes, refers to a group of metabolic disorders that cause high blood sugar levels. Diabetes can be prevented and treat...
The countries in the world with the highest rates are (in order) USA, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland. With the exception of Mexico, all the fattest countries have one thing in common - they are English-speaking nations. In fact, the latest OECD report...
Sustaining the global pace of progress will become more challenging as an ever-increasing proportion of the global birth cohort is born in sub-Saharan Africa,25 with the highest rates of burden in these age groups. It is encouraging, however, that the largest decreases in DALY rates globally ...
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only a transitory effect that is critical to the convergence of obesity rates. The main objective of using unit root tests with endogenously determined structural breaks is to identify and determine the trend-shifts and utilize information on non-normal errors to further improve the power of the ...
The highest prevalence of poor-quality medicines was observed in Africa, where 18.7% of samples were substandard or falsified. Deficiencies in quality were more prevalent among antimalarials (19.1%) than antibiotics (12.4%), while further studies are needed to understand the quality profile of ...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are rapidly increasing in sub-Saharan African countries, where 96% of global malaria deaths occur. This study aimed to investigate the disease burden of NCDs in countries with the current highest malaria mortality. Data f
Understanding the temporal trends in the burden of overall and type-specific cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in youths and young adults and its attributable risk factors is important for effective and targeted prevention strategies and measures. We aimed