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Global, regional, and national prevalence of child and adolescent overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Jessica A. Kerr, George Patton, Karly Cini, Yohannes Abate, Nasir Abbas, Abdallah H A Abd Al Magied, Samar Abd ElHafeez, Sherief Abd‐Elsalam, Arash Abdollahi, Meriem Abdoun, Deldar Morad Abdulah, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Auwal Abdullahi, Hansani Madushika Abeywickrama, Alemwork Abie, Olumide Abiodun, Shady Abohashem, Dariush Abtahi, Hasan Abualruz, Bilyaminu Abubakar, Eman Abu‐Gharbieh, Hana J Abukhadijah, Niveen ME Abu-Rmeileh, Salahdein Aburuz, Ahmed Abu‐Zaid, Lisa C. Adams, Mesafint Molla Adane, Isaac Yeboah Addo, Kamoru A. Adedokun, Nurudeen A. Adegoke, Ridwan Olamilekan Adesola, Juliana Bunmi Adetunji, Temitayo Esther Adeyeoluwa, Usha Adiga, Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah Adnani, Abdelrahman Yousry Afify, Aanuoluwapo Adeyimika Afolabi, Muhammad Sohail Afzal, Saira Afzal, Suneth Agampodi, Shahin Aghamiri, César Agostinis Sobrinho, Williams Agyemang‐Duah, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Austin J Ahlstrom, Aqeel Ahmad, Danish Ahmad, Fuzail Ahmad, Muayyad Ahmad, Noah Ahmad, Sajjad Ahmad, Ayman Ahmed, Haroon Ahmed, Luai A. Ahmed, Mehrunnisha Sharif Ahmed, Meqdad Saleh Ahmed, Syed Anees Ahmed, Marjan Ajami, Mohammed Ahmed Akkaif, Ashley E Akrami, Hanadi Al Hamad, Syed Mahfuz Al Hasan, Zain Al Ta’ani, Yazan Al Thaher, Tariq A. Alalwan, Ziyad Al‐Aly, Khurshid Alam, Rasmieh Al‐Amer, Amani N. Alansari, Fahmi Y. Al-Ashwal, Mohammed ALBashtawy, Bezawit Abeje Alemayehu, Abdelazeem M. Algammal, Khalid F. AlHabib, Dari Alhuwail, Abid Ali, Endale Alemayehu Ali, Mohammad Daud Ali, Mohammed Usman Ali, Rafat Ali, Waad Ali, Sheikh Mohammad Alif, Yousef Alimohamadi, Samah W. Al‐Jabi, Mohamad Aljofan, Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Ahmad Alkhatib, Wael Almahmeed, Sabah Al-Marwani, Mahmoud A. Alomari, Saleh A. Alqahtani, Abdullah Ali Alqarni, Ahmad Alrawashdeh, Intima Alrimawi, Sahel Majed Alrousan, Najim Z. Alshahrani, Zaid Altaany, Awais Altaf, Farrukh Jawad Alvi, Nelson Alvis‐Guzmán

The Lancet · 2025

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Summary

BACKGROUND: Despite the well documented consequences of obesity during childhood and adolescence and future risks of excess body mass on non-communicable diseases in adulthood, coordinated global action on excess body mass in early life is still insufficient. Inconsistent measurement and reporting are a barrier to specific targets, resource allocation, and interventions. In this Article we report current estimates of overweight and obesity across childhood and adolescence, progress over time, and forecasts to inform specific actions. METHODS: Using established methodology from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2021, we modelled overweight and obesity across childhood and adolescence from 1990 to 2021, and then forecasted to 2050. Primary data for our models in

Subject
Dietary patterns & chronic disease
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(25)00397-6
Catalogue ID
SNmp99jdtp-axmcu6
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