BMJ  2006;333:12 (1 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7557.12

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Obesity is less common in richer countries

Roger Dobson

Abergavenny

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Almost one in five people in Hungary are obese, three times the proportion in Norway, Italy, and France, says a new report.

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The study, which was based on data from 24 countries in Europe and published online before print publication on 14 June in the European Journal of Public Health (www.oxfordjournals.org, doi: 10. 1093/eurpub/ckl073), shows that Central and Eastern European nations have some of the highest rates, although the prevalence of obesity among men is higher in the United Kingdom than in Russia, where women are nearly twice as likely to be obese as men.

The results show that the prevalence of obesity varies with economic and other indicators. There was less obesity in countries with a higher gross domestic product and in nations with higher percentages of city dwellers.

The authors used national surveys to determine the sex specific prevalence of obesity—the percentage of people with a . . . [Full text of this article]


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