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1 Μαρ 2024 · In 2022, 43% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight and 16% were living with obesity. In 2022, 37 million children under the age of 5 were overweight. Over 390 million children and adolescents aged 5–19 years were overweight in 2022, including 160 million who were living with obesity.
3 Μαρ 2022 · A detailed clinical examination screens for underlying causes of obesity, and assesses for possible obesity-related complications, risk of future disease, and whether potentially modifiable behavioural factors exist.
Obesity — defined as having a high body mass index — is a risk factor for several of the world's leading causes of death, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and various types of cancer. 4 As you can see, it’s estimated that around 5 million people died prematurely in 2019 as a result of obesity, which makes it one of the leading ...
19 Ιουλ 2023 · Obesity during adolescence (10 to 19 years of age) is associated with health consequences that include prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, 1 nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, 2 dyslipidemia, 3...
2 Ιουλ 2020 · Infographics on child overweight and obesity. Preventing noncommunicable diseases. Reducing the major risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet and the harmful use of alcohol – is the focus of WHO’s work to prevent deaths from NCDs.
18 Μαΐ 2023 · In this Primer, we provide an overview of the epidemiology, causes, pathophysiology and consequences of child and adolescent obesity.
Overweight and obesity among adolescents. Childhood overweight rates, including pre‑obesity and obesity, have been growing worldwide over the past decades. Environmental factors, lifestyle preferences, genetic makeup and culture can all cause children to be overweight.
