Trends in obesity across Canada from 2005 to 2018: a consecutive cross-sectional population-based study

• Published in: CMAJ Open
• Main Authors: Lytvyak, Ellina, Straube, Sebastian, Modi, Renuca, Lee, Karen K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: CMA Impact Inc. 2022
• Subjects: Research; Armitage; British Columbia; Canada; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9259440/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35609927; https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20210205

BACKGROUND: Obesity is increasingly prevalent worldwide and is becoming an epidemic in many countries, including Canada. We sought to describe and analyze temporal obesity trends in the Canadian adult population from 2005 through 2018 at the national and provincial or territorial levels. METHODS: We...