Navegação Ciências da Saúde por Autor "Ezzati, Majid"
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A century of trends in adult human height
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration; Bentham, James; Fuchs, Flávio Danni; Fuchs, Sandra Cristina Pereira Costa; Moreira, Leila Beltrami; Zuñiga Cisneros, Julio; Ezzati, Majid (2016) [Artigo de periódico]Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height ... -
Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure : a pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration; Zhou, Bin; Zuñiga Cisneros, Julio; Ezzati, Majid; Fuchs, Flávio Danni; Fuchs, Sandra Cristina Pereira Costa; Moreira, Leila Beltrami (2018) [Artigo de periódico]Background: Change in the prevalence of raised blood pressure could be due to both shifts in the entire distribution of blood pressure (representing the combined effects of public health interventions and secular trends) ... -
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
Ezzati, Majid; Fuchs, Flávio Danni; Fuchs, Sandra Cristina Pereira Costa; Moreira, Leila Beltrami (2019) [Artigo de periódico]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 ... -
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016 : a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128.9 million children, adolescents, and adults
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration; Bentham, James; Zuñiga Cisneros, Julio; Ezzati, Majid; Fuchs, Flávio Danni; Fuchs, Sandra Cristina Pereira Costa; Moreira, Leila Beltrami (2017) [Artigo de periódico]Background Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) ...