| Title: |
What is a “high” prevalence of obesity? Two rapid reviews and a proposed set of thresholds for classifying prevalence levels |
| Authors: |
Lobstein, Tim; Jewell, Jo |
| Source: |
Obesity Reviews ; volume 23, issue 2 ; ISSN 1467-7881 1467-789X |
| Publisher Information: |
Wiley |
| Publication Year: |
2021 |
| Collection: |
Wiley Online Library (Open Access Articles via Crossref) |
| Description: |
Summary Categories such as “low” and “high” have been used for several decades to describe the prevalence of stunting and wasting in populations of children aged under 5 years. They provide support for public health risk assessment and policy‐making, including alerting health departments and aid agencies to national trends and local needs. In the light of the need for monitoring progress to meet globally agreed targets for overweight and obesity, the classification of their prevalence will be a valuable to aid in policy development, to target resources, and to promote public health interventions. This paper reviews the current use of categories to describe obesity prevalence in policy, advocacy, and research literature. Where prevalence categories have been formally proposed, this paper compares their application on large‐scale datasets. The paper then develops a set of recommended threshold values to classify prevalence levels for overweight and obesity among children under age 5 years, children aged 5–19 years, and adults. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1111/obr.13363 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13363; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/obr.13363; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/obr.13363 |
| Rights: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.85ED7F4A |
| Database: |
BASE |