Obesity and Trends

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Critique either a quantitative research article or a qualitative research article. I have three articles that I can choose from. They are from my "Annotated Bibliography of Obesity and Trends" Articles 1) Global Burden of Disease Obesity Collaborators, Afshin A, Forouzanfar MH, Reitsma MB, Sur P, Estep K, et al. Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years. N Engl J Med. 2017;377(1):13–27. This study used information on body mass index, overweight and obesity obtained from 1514 sources from 174 countries, documenting an overall increase in global obesity. This article was taken form the research website The New England Journal of Medicine 2) NCD Risk Factor Collaboration. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults. Lancet. 2017;390(10113):2627–42. While the main focus of this study was the global obesity prevalence among children and adolescents, the manuscript also includes updated information on adult obesity prevalence (1975 to 2016), which is available on the project’s website. This article was taken from research website THE LANCET 3) Hales CM, Fryar CD, Carroll MD, Freedman DS, Aoki Y, Ogden CL. Differences in Obesity Prevalence by Demographic Characteristics and Urbanization Level Among Adults in the United States, 2013–2016. JAMA. 2018;319(23):2419–29. This study provided the most recent obesity prevalence from the NHANES (2013–2016) among the studies in our search, including examination of trends in obesity prevalence by urbanization level during this period. This article was from the research website JAMA Network