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Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight

Publicated to:Elife. 10 e60060- - 2021-03-01 10(), DOI: 10.7554/elife.60060

Authors: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)

Affiliations

‎ Al Quds Univ, East Jerusalem, State Of Palest, Palestine - Author
‎ Birzeit Univ, Birzeit, State Of Palest, Israel - Author
‎ BRAC James P Grant Sch Publ Hlth, Dhaka, Bangladesh - Author
‎ Caja Costarricense Seguro Social, San Jose, Costa Rica - Author
‎ Capital Med Univ, Beijing An Zhen Hosp, Beijing, Peoples R China - Author
‎ Copenhagen Univ Hosp, Copenhagen, Denmark - Author
‎ Eduardo Mondlane Univ, Maputo, Mozambique - Author
‎ Flinders Univ S Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia - Author
‎ Food & Nutr Res Inst, Taguig, Philippines - Author
‎ Harvard TH Chan Sch Publ Hlth, Boston, MA USA - Author
‎ ICMR Natl Inst Nutr, Hyderabad, India - Author
‎ Imperial Coll London, London, England - Author
‎ Inst Mexicano Seguro Social, Mexico City, DF, Mexico - Author
‎ Inst Nacl Ciencias Med & Nut, Mexico City, DF, Mexico - Author
‎ Mahidol Univ, Salaya, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand - Author
‎ Middlesex Univ, London, England - Author
‎ Minist Hlth, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Author
‎ Minist Hlth, Victoria, Seychelles - Author
‎ Natl Ctr Publ Healthcare, Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan - Author
‎ Natl Inst Biomed Innovat Hlth & Nutr, Tokyo, Japan - Author
‎ Noncommunicable Dis Res Ctr, Tehran, Iran - Author
‎ Qatar Univ, Doha, Qatar - Author
‎ Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul, South Korea - Author
‎ Shahrekord Univ Med Sci, Shahrekord, Iran - Author
‎ Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands - Author
‎ Univ Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Author
‎ Univ Bremen, Bremen, Germany - Author
‎ Univ Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark - Author
‎ Univ Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland - Author
‎ Univ Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia - Author
‎ Univ Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Author
‎ Univ Oulu, Oulu, Finland - Author
‎ Univ Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru - Author
‎ Univ Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia - Author
‎ Univ Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia - Author
‎ Univ Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia - Author
‎ Urmia Univ Med Sci, Orumiyeh, Iran - Author
‎ Usmanu Danfodiyo Univ Teaching Hosp, Sokoto, Nigeria - Author
‎ Victor Babes Univ Med & Pharm Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania - Author
‎ World Hlth Org, Geneva, Switzerland - Author
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Abstract

From 1985 to 2016, the prevalence of underweight decreased, and that of obesity and severe obesity increased, in most regions, with significant variation in the magnitude of these changes across regions. We investigated how much change in mean body mass index (BMI) explains changes in the prevalence of underweight, obesity, and severe obesity in different regions using data from 2896 population-based studies with 187 million participants. Changes in the prevalence of underweight and total obesity, and to a lesser extent severe obesity, are largely driven by shifts in the distribution of BMI, with smaller contributions from changes in the shape of the distribution. In East and Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, the underweight tail of the BMI distribution was left behind as the distribution shifted. There is a need for policies that address all forms of malnutrition by making healthy foods accessible and affordable, while restricting unhealthy foods through fiscal and regulatory restrictions.

Keywords

Australian adultsBmiBody mass indexChinese adultsDouble burdenEpidemiologyGlobal healthHealthHumansMalnutritionNoneObesityPooled analysisPrevalenceRisk factorsSystematic analysisThinnessTrendsUnderweightUs adults

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Elife due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position 8/94, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Biology. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations from Scopus Elsevier, it yields a value for the Field-Weighted Citation Impact from the Scopus agency: 3.94, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 18.78 (source consulted: Dimensions Aug 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-08-27, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 8
  • Scopus: 69
  • Europe PMC: 50

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-08-27:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 464.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 463 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 49.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 1 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 54 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Albania; Algeria; Argentina; Australia; Austria; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belgium; Benin; Brazil; Brunei Darussalam; Bulgaria; Burma; Cameroon; Canada; Cape Verde; Chile; China; Colombia; Costa Rica; Croatia; Cuba; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; Estonia; Ethiopia; Fiji; Finland; France; Georgia; Germany; Ghana; Greece; Guatemala; Haiti; Hong Kong; Hungary; Iceland; India; Indonesia; Iran; Israel; Italy; Jamaica; Japan; Jerusalem; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Lebanon; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Macedonia; Malawi; Malaysia; Mali; Malt; Mauritius; Mexico; Moldova; Mongolia; Montenegro; Morocco; Mozambique; Nepal; Netherlands; New Zealand; Niger; Nigeria; Norway; Oman; Pakistan; Palestine; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Philippines; Poland; Portugal; Puerto Rico; Qatar; Republic of Korea; Rumanía; Russia; San Marino; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Serbia; Seychelles; Singapore; Slovakia; Slovenia; Solomon Islands; South African Republic; Sweden; Switzerland; Taiwan; Tajikistan; Tanzania; Thailand; Tonga; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Uganda; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States of America; Uruguay; Venezuela; Vietnam; Yemen.