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Read what major media outlets are saying about our work.Most adults, a third of children will be overweight or obese by 2050: Study
Nearly 60 percent of all adults and a third of all children in the world will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless governments take action, says a new study.
Obesity rates soaring globally in ‘monumental social failure’, study says
Rates of obesity and overweight are spiralling due to a “monumental societal failure” to tackle the problem, with more than half of adults and almost a third of children and young people set to be affected by 2050, according to a new study.
More than half of adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050 – report
Global failures in the response to the growing obesity crisis over the past three decades have led to a staggering increase in the numbers affected, according to the analysis published in The Lancet.
China, India Obesity Problems Driving Global Surge, Study Says
Without drastic intervention, 3.80 billion adults over the age of 25 years will have overweight and obesity around the world by 2050 compared to 2.11 billion in 2021.
US spends more on ambulatory care than inpatient, pharmaceuticals combined
Ambulatory care is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the health care industry. It is also the most expensive, according to a new set of studies published in JAMA and JAMA Health Forum.
Autism treatments are among fastest-growing US health-care bills
A new study by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation covers more than three-quarters of nationwide health spending last decade. Among the health conditions where more than $5 billion was spent overall, they found that autism had the fastest annual pace of growth, at 13%.
A wealthy and unhappy nation
[A report measuring the state of public trust and discourse] finds that the U.S. economy is performing better than any of its peers and pulling away from the economies of Europe and Japan.
The growing inequality in life expectancy among Americans
Called "Ten Americas," the analysis published late last year in The Lancet found that "one's life expectancy varies dramatically depending on where one lives, the economic conditions in that location, and one's racial and ethnic identity."
1 million U.S. adults will develop dementia each year by 2060, study says
Theo Vos, an epidemiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Washington who was not involved in the study, said that dementia is a difficult condition to consistently measure, in part because norms around listing it as the cause of death have varied by country and changed over time.
Life expectancy gap in U.S. widens to 20 years due to "truly alarming" health disparities, researchers say
“The extent and magnitude of health disparities in American society are truly alarming in a country with the wealth and resources of the USA,” senior author Christopher J.L. Murray said.
Three-quarters of US adults are now overweight or obese
Dr. Ng [Marie Ng, an affiliate associate professor at IHME] and her co-authors wrote that existing policies have failed to do enough to address the crisis, adding that “major reform” was needed to prevent it from worsening.
How ‘miracle’ weight-loss drugs will change the world
Such policy-based behavioral interventions usually have little effect on preventing weight gain or causing weight loss in the real world, at least in the short term. But the GLP-1 drugs could be different, says Theo Vos, an epidemiologist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle.
India's cancer burden drives generational poverty
India should protect its people not just from cancer, but also from the financial strain of treatment.
Mental health of adolescents
Globally, it is estimated that one in seven (14%) of 10–19-year-olds experience mental health conditions [according to GBD data], yet these remain largely unrecognized and untreated.
One million people who never regularly smoked now vape in England – study
Another study from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors (GBD) Tobacco Forecasting Collaborators, also published in the same journal, looked at speeding up the decline in tobacco smoking globally.