# Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

**Type:** Papers  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/papers/rising-rural-body-mass-index-is-the-main-driver-of-the-global-obesity-epidemic/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Author Names | Honor Bixby,James Bentham,Bin Zhou,Mariachiara Di Cesare,Christopher Paciorek,James E. Bennett,Cristina Taddei,Gretchen A Stevens,Andrea Rodriguez‐Martinez,Rodrigo M. Carrillo‐Larco,Young‐Ho Khang,Maroje Sorić,Edward W. Gregg,J. Jaime Miranda,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Stefan Savin,Marisa K. Sophiea,Maria LC Iurilli,Bethlehem Solomon,Melanie Cowan,Leanne M Riley,Goodarz Danaei,Pascal Bovet,Adela Chiriță-Emandi,Ian Hambleton,Alison Hayes,Nayu Ikeda,André Pascal Kengne,Avula Laxmaiah,Yanping Li,Stephen T. McGarvey,Aya Mostafa,Martin Neovius,Gregor Starc,Ahmad Ali Zainuddin,Leandra Abarca-Gómez,Ziad Abdeen,Shynar Abdrakhmanova,Suhaila Abdul Ghaffar,Zargar Abdul Hamid,Jamila Abubakar Garba,Niveen Abu-Rmeileh,Benjamín Acosta-Cázares,Robert J. Adams,Wichai Aekplakorn,Kaosar Afsana,Imelda Angeles‐Agdeppa,Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas,Charles Agyemang,Mohamad Hasnan Ahmad,Noor Ani Ahmad,Naser Ahmadi,Alireza Ahmadvand,Wolfgang Ahrens,Kamel Ajlouni,Fadia AlBuhairan,Shahla AlDhukair,Hazzaa M. Al-Hazzaa,Mohamed M. Ali,Osman Ali,Ala’a Alkerwi,Amani Al‐Othman,Rajaa Al‐Raddadi,Mar Álvarez‐Pedrerol,Eman Aly,Deepak Amarapurkar,Philippe Amouyel,Antoinette Amuzu,Lars Bo Andersen,Sigmund A. Anderssen,Lars Ängquist,Ranjit Mohan Anjana,Alireza Ansari-Moghaddam,Hajer Aounallah-Skhiri,Joana Araújo,Inger Ariansen,Tahir Aris,Raphael E. Arku,Nimmathota Arlappa,Krishna Kumar Aryal,Thor Aspelund,Félix Assah,Maria Cecília F Assunção,May Soe Aung,Juha Auvinen,Mária Avdičová,Ana Azevedo,Fereidoun Azizi,Mehrdad Azmin,Bontha V. Babu,Azli Baharudin,Suhad Bahijri,Jennifer L. Baker,Nagalla Balakrishna,Mohamed Bamoshmoosh,Maciej Banach,Piotr Bandosz,José R. Banegas,Carlo M Barbagallo,Alberto Barceló |
| Citations | 753 |
| DOI | 10.1038/s41586-019-1171-x |
| Fields | Medicine |
| Open Access | true |
| OA Status | hybrid |
| OA URL | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1171-x |
| OpenAlex ID | https://openalex.org/W2945386046 |
| PMID | 31068725 |
| Type | article |
| Year | 2019 |

## Paper authors

- [Osman Ali](https://scholariq.org/researchers/osman-ali/)

## Paper journal

- [Nature](https://scholariq.org/journals/nature/)

## Paper primary topic

- [Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet](https://scholariq.org/topics/obesity-physical-activity-diet/)

## Paper topics

- [Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet](https://scholariq.org/topics/obesity-physical-activity-diet/)
- [Nutritional Studies and Diet](https://scholariq.org/topics/nutritional-studies-and-diet/)
- [Birth, Development, and Health](https://scholariq.org/topics/birth-development-and-health/)

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