2024年3月1日 · Obesity is a chronic complex disease defined by excessive fat deposits that can impair health. Obesity can lead to increased risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease, it can affect bone health and reproduction, it increases the risk of certain cancers. Obesity influences the quality of living, such as sleeping or moving.

2024年9月30日 · Obesity is one side of the double burden of malnutrition, and today more people are obese than underweight in every region except the South-East Asia Region. Once considered a problem only in high-income countries, today some middle-income countries have among the highest prevalence of overweight and obesity worldwide.

2020年4月2日 · Obesity is one of the most serious global public health challenges of the 21st century, affecting every country in the Western Pacific Region. Obesity in adulthood is a major risk factor for the world’s leading causes of poor health and early death including cardiovascular disease, several common cancers, diabetes and osteoarthritis. Preventing obesity has direct …

In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight and 650 million were obese. At least 2.8 million people each year die as a result of being overweight or obese. The prevalence of obesity nearly tripled between 1975 and 2016. Once associated with high-income countries, obesity is now also prevalent in low- and middle-income countries.

2020年10月19日 · Overweight and obesity are defined as ''abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health''. Childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century. The problem is global and is steadily affecting many low- and middle-income countries, particularly in urban settings.

Le surpoids et l'obésité sont des facteurs de risque majeurs associés à un certain nombre de maladies chroniques, notamment les pathologies cardiovasculaires telles que les maladies cardiaques et les accidents vasculaires cérébraux, qui …

2024年1月29日 · <p>At the other end of the malnutrition scale, obesity is one of today&rsquo;s most blatantly visible &ndash; yet most neglected &ndash; public health problems. Paradoxically coexisting with undernutrition, an escalating global epidemic of overweight and obesity &ndash; &ldquo;globesity&rdquo; &ndash; is taking over many parts of the world. If immediate action is …

The relationship between poor health outcomes/all-cause mortality and obesity is well-established. Worldwide, at least 2.8 million people die each year as a result of being overweight or obese, and an estimated 35.8 million (2.3%) of global DALYs are caused by …

Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health. Obesity is linked to an increased risk for many NCDs, including cardiovascular diseases, 13 types of cancer, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and chronic respiratory diseases including obstructive sleep apnoea.

2024年3月1日 · Being overweight or obese can have a serious impact on health. Carrying extra fat leads to serious health consequences such as cardiovascular disease (mainly heart disease and stroke), type 2 diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders like osteoarthritis, and some cancers (endometrial, breast and colon).