Burden of obesity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study

Ali H. Mokdad; Charbel El Bcheraoui; Ashkan Afshin; Raghid Charara; Ibrahim Khalil; Maziar Moradi-Lakeh; Nicholas J. Kassebaum; Michael Collison; Farah Daoud; Kristopher J. Krohn; Adrienne Chew; Stan H. Biryukov; Leslie Cornaby; Kyle J. Foreman; Michael Kutz; Patrick Liu; Marissa Reitsma; Patrick Sur; Haidong Wang; Ben Zipkin; Johan Arnlov; Cristiana Abbafati; Abdishakur M. Abdulle; Niveen M. E. Abu-Rmeileh; Muktar Beshir Ahmed; Ziyad Al-Aly; Khurshid Alam; Reza Alizadeh-Navaei; Ala'a Alkerwi; Khalid A. Altirkawi; Nelson Alvis-Guzman; Bernhard T. Baune; Neeraj Bedi; Derrick A. Bennett; Addisu S. Beyene; Zulfiqar A. Bhutta; Mulugeta M. Birhanu; Hadi Danawi; Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad; Florian Fischer; Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot; Paramjit Singh Gill; Philimon N. Gona; Vipin Gupta; Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold; Randah Ribhi Hamadeh; Samer Hamidi; Habtamu Abera Hareri; Masako Horino; Mohamed Hsairi; Mehdi Javanbakht; Denny John; Jost B. Jonas; Vasna Joshua; Amir Kasaeian; Ezra B. Ketema; Yousef Saleh Khader; Ejaz Ahmad Khan; Jagdish Khubchandani; Daniel Kim; Yun Jin Kim; Yohannes Kinfu; Yoshihiro Kokubo; Heidi J. Larson; Paul H. Lee; Raimundas Lunevicius; Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek; Mohammed Magdy Abd El Razek; Reza Malekzadeh; Kedar K. Mate; Ziad A. Memish; Mubarek Abera Mengistie; George A. Mensah; Felix Akpojene Ogbo; Farshad Pourmalek; Anwar Rafay; Mostafa Qorbani; Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar; Saleem M. Rana; Salman Rawaf; Andre M. N. Renzaho; Satar Rezaei; Mohammad Sadegh Rezai; Mahdi Safdarian; Mohammad Ali Sahraian; Payman Salamati; Abdallah M. Samy; Juan Ramon Sanabria; Milena M. Santric Milicevic; Benn Sartorius; Sadaf G. Sepanlou; Masood Ali Shaikh; Rahman Shiri; Diego Augusto Santos Silva; Jasvinder A. Singh; Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi; Tenaw Yimer Tiruye; Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja; Tommi Vasankari; Vasiliy Victorovich Vlassov; Tolassa Wakayo; Andrea Werdecker; Naohiro Yonemoto; Mustafa Z. Younis; Bassel Zein; Aisha O. Jumaan; Theo Vos; Simon I. Hay; Mohsen Naghavi; Christopher J. L. Murray; GBD 2015 Eastern Mediterranean Reg

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Burden of obesity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study

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Burden of obesity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study

Ali H. Mokdad, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Ashkan Afshin, Raghid Charara, Ibrahim Khalil, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Michael Collison, Farah Daoud, Kristopher J. Krohn, …

International journal of public health, Vol.63(Suppl 1), pp.165-176

01/05/2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-017-1002-5

PMCID: PMC5973977

PMID: 28776243

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We used the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2015 study results to explore the burden of high body mass index (BMI) in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). We estimated the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children (2-19 years) and adults (20 years) in 1980 and 2015. The burden of disease related to high BMI was calculated using the GBD comparative risk assessment approach. The prevalence of obesity increased for adults from 15.1% (95% UI 13.4-16.9) in 1980 to 20.7% (95% UI 18.8-22.8) in 2015. It increased from 4.1% (95% UI 2.9-5.5) to 4.9% (95% UI 3.6-6.4) for the same period among children. In 2015, there were 417,115 deaths and 14,448,548 disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) attributable to high BMI in EMR, which constitute about 10 and 6.3% of total deaths and DALYs, respectively, for all ages. This is the first study to estimate trends in obesity burden for the EMR from 1980 to 2015. We call for EMR countries to invest more resources in prevention and health promotion efforts to reduce this burden.

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Title: Burden of obesity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study
Creators - without role: Ali H. Mokdad - University of Washington
Charbel El Bcheraoui - University of Washington
Ashkan Afshin - University of Washington
Raghid Charara - Amer Univ Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Ibrahim Khalil - University of Washington
Maziar Moradi-Lakeh - College Station Medical Center
Nicholas J. Kassebaum - University of Washington
Michael Collison - University of Washington
Farah Daoud - University of Washington
Kristopher J. Krohn - University of Washington
Adrienne Chew - University of Washington
Stan H. Biryukov - University of Washington
Leslie Cornaby - University of Washington
Kyle J. Foreman - University of Washington
Michael Kutz - University of Washington
Patrick Liu - University of Washington
Marissa Reitsma - University of Washington
Patrick Sur - University of Washington
Haidong Wang - University of Washington
Ben Zipkin - University of Washington
Johan Arnlov - Karolinska Institutet
Cristiana Abbafati - Univ Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Abdishakur M. Abdulle - New York University Abu Dhabi
Niveen M. E. Abu-Rmeileh - Birzeit University
Muktar Beshir Ahmed - Jimma University
Ziyad Al-Aly - Washington Univ, St Louis, MO USA
Khurshid Alam - University of Melbourne
Reza Alizadeh-Navaei - College Station Medical Center
Ala'a Alkerwi - LIH, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Khalid A. Altirkawi - King Saud University
Nelson Alvis-Guzman - University of Cartagena
Bernhard T. Baune - University of Adelaide
Neeraj Bedi - College Station Medical Center
Derrick A. Bennett - University of Oxford
Addisu S. Beyene - Haramaya University
Zulfiqar A. Bhutta - Aga Khan University
Mulugeta M. Birhanu - University of Groningen
Hadi Danawi - Walden University
Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad - Karolinska Institutet
Florian Fischer - Supreme Council Of Health
Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot - Jimma University
Paramjit Singh Gill - University of Warwick
Philimon N. Gona - University of Massachusetts Boston
Vipin Gupta
Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold - University of Groningen
Randah Ribhi Hamadeh - Arabian Gulf University
Samer Hamidi - Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University
Habtamu Abera Hareri - Addis Ababa University
Masako Horino - Bur Child Family & Community Wellness, Nevada Div Publ & Behav Hlth, Carson, CA USA
Mohamed Hsairi - Salah Azaiz Inst, Dept Epidemiol, Tunis, Tunisia
Mehdi Javanbakht - University of Aberdeen
Denny John - Int Ctr Res Women, New Delhi, India
Jost B. Jonas - Heidelberg University
Vasna Joshua - College Station Medical Center
Amir Kasaeian - University of Tehran
Ezra B. Ketema - Mekelle University
Yousef Saleh Khader - College Station Medical Center
Ejaz Ahmad Khan - Hlth Serv Acad, Islamabad, Punjab, Pakistan
Jagdish Khubchandani - Ball State University
Daniel Kim - Northeastern Univ, Dept Hlth Sci, Boston, MA USA
Yun Jin Kim - Southern Univ Coll, Fac Chinese Med, Skudai, Kagawa, Malaysia
Yohannes Kinfu - University of Canberra
Yoshihiro Kokubo
Heidi J. Larson - University of Washington
Paul H. Lee - University of Hong Kong
Raimundas Lunevicius - Aintree Univ Hosp Natl Hlth Serv Fdn Trust, Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek - College Station Medical Center
Mohammed Magdy Abd El Razek - Aswan University
Reza Malekzadeh - University of Tehran
Kedar K. Mate - McGill University
Ziad A. Memish - Saudi Minist Hlth, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Mubarek Abera Mengistie - Jimma University
George A. Mensah - NHLBI, Ctr Translat Res & Implementat Sci, NIH, Bldg 10, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
Felix Akpojene Ogbo - Western Sydney University
Farshad Pourmalek - University of British Columbia
Anwar Rafay - Contech
Mostafa Qorbani - College Station Medical Center
Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar - University of Tehran
Saleem M. Rana - Contech
Salman Rawaf - Imperial Coll London, London, England
Andre M. N. Renzaho - Western Sydney University
Satar Rezaei - Supreme Council Of Health
Mohammad Sadegh Rezai - Focus
Mahdi Safdarian - University of Tehran
Mohammad Ali Sahraian - University of Tehran
Payman Salamati - University of Tehran
Abdallah M. Samy - Ain Shams University
Juan Ramon Sanabria - Marshall University
Milena M. Santric Milicevic - University of Belgrade
Benn Sartorius - University of KwaZulu-Natal
Sadaf G. Sepanlou - University of Tehran
Masood Ali Shaikh
Rahman Shiri - University of Helsinki
Diego Augusto Santos Silva - Univ Fed Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil
Jasvinder A. Singh - University of Alabama
Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi - University of Virginia
Tenaw Yimer Tiruye - Debre Markos University
Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja - Fed Teaching Hosp, Dept Internal Med, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Tommi Vasankari - UKK Inst Hlth Promot Res, Tampere, Finland
Vasiliy Victorovich Vlassov - Supreme Council Of Health
Tolassa Wakayo - Jimma University
Andrea Werdecker - Cohort
Naohiro Yonemoto - Kyoto University
Mustafa Z. Younis - Jackson State University
Bassel Zein - Georgetown University
Aisha O. Jumaan
Theo Vos - University of Washington
Simon I. Hay - University of Washington
Mohsen Naghavi - University of Washington
Christopher J. L. Murray - University of Washington
GBD 2015 Eastern Mediterranean Reg
Publication Details: International journal of public health, Vol.63(Suppl 1), pp.165-176
Publisher: Frontiers Media Sa
Number of pages: 12
Grant note: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; CGIAR
Identifiers: 9913667208331
Academic Unit: Alfaisal University; King Saud University
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article