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Worldwide trends in children’s and adolescents’ body mass index, underweight, overweight and obesity, in comparison with adults, from 1975 to 2016: A pooled analysis of 2,416 population-based measurement studies with 128.9 million participants (Pre-published version)

Murtagh, Elaine; NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (Elsevier, 2017)

Background: Being underweight as well as overweight and obese in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body ...