Tobacco and obesity epidemics: not so different after all?
- 24 June 2004
- Vol. 328 (7455), 1558-1560
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.328.7455.1558
Abstract
In the United States, obesity has risen by 74% in the past decade, with at least one in five adults now classified as obese.5 Similar trends are seen in most Western countries.6 In the Middle East and North Africa, and in much of Eastern Europe and Latin America, levels of overweight and obesity in women are similar to, or exceed, those of the United States.7Keywords
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