Countries in Latin America, such as Mexico and Argentina, have also reported rising obesity rates. Mexico’s obesity rate is now over 36%, driven by similar factors to those in other regions, such as urbanization, changing dietary patterns, and reduced physical activity. Europe Several European ...
We only included surveys that used direct measures of weight and height and were representative of each country's overall population.#In Europe, the prevalence of obesity (body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m2) in men ranged from 4.0% to 28.3% and in women from 6.2% to 36.5%. We observed ...
To describe the design, methods and first results of a survey on obesity-related behaviours and body mass index (BMI) in adults living in neighbourhoods from five urban regions across Europe. A cross-sectional observational study in the framework of an European Union-funded project on obesogenic...
Siopis, G.; Moschonis, G.; Reppas, K.; Iotova, V.; Bazdarska, Y.; Chakurova, N.; Rurik, I.; Radó, A.S.; Cardon, G.; Craemer, M.D.; et al. The Emerging Prevalence of Obesity within Families in Europe and its Associations with Family Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Life...
The charity similarly found that surplus weight now instigated 6.3% of all cancer cases - up from 5.5% in 2011 - while smoking as a root had declined, Cancer Research UK found the country with the greatest amount of preventable causes of cancer was Scotland with 46.5%, followed by Northern...
This paper investigates the effect of income- and wealth-based poverty on the probability of being obese for the elderly in Europe by analysing data drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). We use early-life economic ...
RESULTS: The combined prevalence of OW/obesity ranges from more than 40% in southern Europe to less than 10% in northern Europe. Overall, the prevalence of OW was higher in girls (21.1%) as compared with boys (18.6%). The prevalence of OW shows a negative gradient with social position,...
(that is, the hypertension population exclusively), 470% of individuals with hypertension are overweight or obese.100 In those with type II diabetes mellitus, the prevalence of the obesity–hyperten- sion phenotype is variable by country and defining blood pressure threshold, ranging from 33% to...
Although obesity is related to SES, differentiated from sex, age, and country low SES families; living in industrialized countries increases the possibility of adopting unhealthy eating habits and being obese [61,62]. High SES households tend to have children and adolescents with better physical ...
Other suggested explanations concern, among others, birth weight [27, 28], sleep duration [29], dietary [23] or physical activity patterns [23], which seem to vary among children by country or subregion in Europe as well. To what extent these variables can explain the overweight north–...