Journal article
Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
- Abstract:
-
Background In 2010, overweight and obesity were estimated to cause 3·4 million deaths, 3·9% of years of life lost, and 3·8% of disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) worldwide. The rise in obesity has led to widespread calls for regular monitoring of changes in overweight and obesity prevalence in all populations. Comparable, up-to-date information about levels and trends is essential to quantify population health effects and to prompt decision makers to prioritise action. We estimate the glo...
Expand abstract
Actions
Access Document
- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60460-8
Why is the content I wish to access not available via ORA?
Bibliographic data (the information relating to research outputs) and full-text items (e.g. articles, theses, reports, etc.) arrive in ORA from several different sources. Unfortunately we are not able to make available the full-text for every research output.
Please contact the ORA team (
) if you have queries regarding unavailable content OR if you are aware of a full-text copy we can make available.
) if you have queries regarding unavailable content OR if you are aware of a full-text copy we can make available.
Content may be unavailable for the following four reasons
-
Version unsuitable
-
We have not obtained a suitable full-text for a given research output. See this page for more information.
-
Recently completed
-
Sometimes content is held in ORA but is unavailable for a fixed period of time to comply with the policies and wishes of rights holders.
-
Permissions
-
All content made available in ORA should comply with relevant rights, such as copyright. See this page for more information.
-
Clearance
-
Some thesis volumes scanned as part of the digitisation scheme funded by Dr Leonard Polonsky are currently unavailable due to sensitive material or uncleared third-party copyright content. We are attempting to contact authors whose theses are affected.
Alternative access to the full-text
You may be able to access the full-text directly from the publisher's website using the 'Publisher Copy' link in the 'Links & Downloads' box from a research output's ORA record page. This method may require an institutional or individual subscription to the journal/resource.
Authors
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Lancet
- Journal:
- Lancet
- Volume:
- 384
- Issue:
- 9945
- Pages:
- 766-781
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1474-547X
- ISSN:
-
0140-6736
- Source identifiers:
-
484287
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
-
pubs:484287
- UUID:
-
uuid:d0dfa634-7f80-44c3-bbab-85ab235a9f42
- Local pid:
- pubs:484287
- Deposit date:
- 2014-09-21
Terms of use
- Copyright date:
- 2014
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record