The total number of children, adolescents and adults worldwide living with obesity has surpassed one billion, according to a global analysis published in The Lancet.
Mar 3 2024London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The new study was conducted by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration , a network of over 1,500 researchers and practitioners around the world including from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Imperial College London, that provide rigorous and timely data on major risk factors for non-communicable diseases.
"The increase in obesity is extremely alarming and risks setting back so many of the advances in medicine that we have benefitted from over recent decades. "This can only be tackled by concerted action that places health at the heart of discussions on policy in areas such as agriculture and trade."
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