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1. Introduction
2. Recent trend in obesity
3. Objectives
4. Requirments for assesing prevalence of obesity
5. Countries that have updated information on obesity
6. What can go wrong?
7. BMI distribution curves
8. Some important determinants of obesity (Europe)
9. Prevalence of obesity by age and sex (UK)
10. Obesity and education in adults (Holland)
11. Overweight in Dutch children by parental education
12. How are time-trends studied?
13. Example of two different estimates of obesity (US)
14. Prevalence of obesity in US adults
15. Other methological assumptions
16. Obesity prevalence in adults
17. Prevalence of overweight in 2-19 year old children
18. Prevalence of overweight in adult men (US)
19. Prevakence of overweight in adult women (US)
20. Prevalence of adult obesity in the UK
21. Long-term time-trends in adult obesity prevalence
22. Overweight prevalence (Holland)
23. Obesity prevalence (Holland)
24. Overweight prevalence map (Holland) 1981-89
25. Overweight prevalence map (Holland) 1990-95
26. Overweight prevalence map (Holland) 1999-2003
27. Time-trends is adult obesity (Holland)
28. Time-trends is adult obesity (eastern Finland)
29. Time-trends is adult obesity (Germany)
30. Obesity in the WHO-MONICA study
31. WHO-MONICA :central\eastern Europe (women)
32. WHO-MONICA :central\eastern Europe (men)
33. Obesity in the Baltic states
34. WHO-MONICA: souhtern Europe (women)
35. Overweight and obesity in Australian males
36. Long-term trend of overweight and obesity (China)
37. Chinese overweight and obesity prevalence by age
38. Obesity in European adults
39. Global obesity - top 30
40. Childhood obesity prevalence - introduction
41. IOTF BMI cut points for choldren and adolescents
42. Prevalence of overweight and obesity (Holland)
43. Trends in overweight children 1970-2000
44. Overweight children: trends in last three decades
45. Cut points used in US
46. Overweight prevalence in 6-19 year old children
47. Overweight and obesity prevalence: 10 year olds
48. Prevalence and trends of overweight children (UK)
49. Conclusions (1)
50. Conclusions (2)

Topics Covered

• Assessment of the national prevalence of obesity
• Availability of good, updated data
• Problems with the data
• Important determinants of obesity in Europe: age, sex and social class (education/income)
• Obesity prevalence in adults, adolescents and children
• Time-trends in obesity
• Obesity in the WHO MONICA Study
• Obesity prevalence varies widely within and between countries
• The prevalence of childhood obesity is increasing at an alarming rate

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Series:

• Obesity

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Metabolism & Nutrition

Therapeutic Areas:

• Cardiovascular & Metabolic

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Jacob Seidell has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.