What is it about?
How the prevalence of obesity is increasing in low and middle income countries like Ghana.
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Why is it important?
Increasing obesity prevalence has been associated with increasing burden of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, etc.
Perspectives
Are the governments, health systems and households in low and middle income countries prepared for increasing burden of chronic diseases?
Stella Twumwaa Lartey
University of Calgary Research
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This page is a summary of: Rapidly increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in older Ghanaian adults from 2007-2015: Evidence from WHO-SAGE Waves 1 & 2, PLoS ONE, August 2019, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215045.
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