{"title":"Obesity: the silent pandemic","authors":"Ekjot Kaur, Prabhjeet Kaur","doi":"10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20233505","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The overall prevalence of obesity worldwide has approximately tripled between 1975 and 2016. In 2016, 13% of the world’s population aged 18 and above (11% men, 15% women), were found to be obese.","PeriodicalId":73438,"journal":{"name":"International journal of community medicine and public health","volume":"139 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International journal of community medicine and public health","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20233505","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The overall prevalence of obesity worldwide has approximately tripled between 1975 and 2016. In 2016, 13% of the world’s population aged 18 and above (11% men, 15% women), were found to be obese.