Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11110/19:10407640 RIV/00064190:_____/19:N0000058
Result on the web
<a href="https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/26655/1/s41586-019-1171-x%20%281%29.pdf" target="_blank" >https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/26655/1/s41586-019-1171-x%20%281%29.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1171-x" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41586-019-1171-x</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
Original language description
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities. This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity. Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean BMI segregated by place of residence (a rural or urban area) from 1985 to 2017. We show that, contrary to the dominant paradigm, more than 55% of the global rise in mean BMI from 1985 to 2017-and more than 80% in some low- and middle-income regions-was due to increases in BMI in rural areas. This large contribution stems from the fact that, with the exception of women in sub-Saharan Africa, BMI is increasing at the same rate or faster in rural areas than in cities in low- and middle-income regions. These trends have in turn resulted in a closing-and in some countries reversal-of the gap in BMI between urban and rural areas in low- and middle-income countries, especially for women. In high-income and industrialized countries, we noted a persistently higher rural BMI, especially for women. There is an urgent need for an integrated approach to rural nutrition that enhances financial and physical access to healthy foods, to avoid replacing the rural undernutrition disadvantage in poor countries with a more general malnutrition disadvantage that entails excessive consumption of low-quality calories.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30308 - Nutrition, Dietetics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
NATURE
ISSN
0028-0836
e-ISSN
1476-4687
Volume of the periodical
569
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7755
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
260-264
UT code for WoS article
000467473600049
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85065577280