Trends in cardiometabolic risk factors in the Americas between 1980 and 2014: a pooled analysis of population-based surveys
Authors: J Jaime Miranda, Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco, Catterina Ferreccio, Ian R Hambleton, Paulo A Lotufo, Ramfis Nieto-MartSínez, Bin Zhou, James Bentham, Honor Bixby, Kaveh Hajifathalian, Yuan Lu, Cristina Taddei, Leandra Abarca-Gómez, Benjamin Acosta-Cazares, Carlos A Aguilar-Salinas, Dolores S Andrade, Maria Cecília F Assunção, Alberto Barceló, Aluisio JD Barros, Mauro VG Barros, Joao Luiz D Bastos, Iqbal Bata, Rosangela L Batista, Mikhail Benet, Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz, Heloísa Bettiol, Daniel Bia, Katia V Bloch, Jose G Boggia, Carlos P Boissonnet, Imperia Brajkovich, Lizzy M Brewster, Christine Cameron, Ana Paula C Cândido, Felicia Cañete, Viviane C Cardoso, Esteban Carmuega, Juraci A Cesar, Queenie Chan, Diego G Christofaro, Janine Clarke, Susana C Confortin, Cora L Craig, Felipe V Cureau, Juvenal Soares Dias-da-Costa, Alejandro Diaz, Silvana C Donoso, Eleonora d'Orsi, Paula Duarte de Oliveira, Samuel C Dumith, Denise Eldemire-Shearer, Paul Elliott, Jorge Escobedo-de la Peña, Trevor S Ferguson, Romulo A Fernandes, Daniel Ferrante, Catterina Ferreccio, Damian K Francis, Flavio D Fuchs, Sandra C Fuchs, Andrea Gazzinelli, David Goltzman, Helen Gonçalves, Bruna Goncalves Cordeiro da Silva, Angel R Gonzalez, David A Gonzalez-Chica, Margot González-Leon, Juan P González-Rivas, Clicerio González-Villalpando, María-Elena González-Villalpando, Mariano Gorbea Bonet, Ronald D Gregor, Ramiro Guerrero, Andre L Guimaraes, Martin C Gulliford, Laura Gutierrez, Ian R Hambleton, Leticia Hernandez Cadena, Victor M Herrera, Wilma M Hopman, Andrea RVR Horimoto, Claudia M Hormiga, Bernardo L Horta, Christina Howitt, Vilma E Irazola, Kenneth James, Ramon O Jimenez, Santa Magaly Jiménez-Acosta, Michel Joffres, Patrick Kolsteren, Orlando Landrove, Maria Lazo-Porras, Christa L Lilly, M Fernanada Lima-Costa, Tania Lopez, Paulo A Lotufo, George LL Machado-Coelho, Aristides M Machado-Rodrigues, Marcia Makdisse, Paula Margozzini, Larissa Pruner Marques, Reynaldo Martorell, Luis Mascarenhas, Alicia Matijasevich, Anselmo J Mc Donald Posso, Shelly R McFarlane, Scott B McLean, Ana Maria B Menezes, Juan Francisco Miquel, J Jaime Miranda, Michele Monroy-Valle, Eric A Monterrubio, Eric Monterubio Flores, Leila B Moreira, Alain Morejon, Suzanne N Morin, Jorge Motta, William A Neal, Flavio Nervi, Ramfis E Nieto-Martínez, Oscar A Noboa, Angélica M Ochoa-Avilés, Maria Teresa Olinto Anselmo, Isabel O Oliveira, Lariane M Ono, Pedro Ordunez, Ana Paula C Ortiz, Pedro J Ortiz, Johanna A Otero, Alberto Palloni, Sergio Viana Peixoto, Alexandre C Pereira, Marco A Peres, Cynthia M Pérez, Rafael N Pichardo, Daniel A Rangel Reina, Ramon A Rascon-Pacheco, Luis Revilla, Robespierre Ribeiro, Raphael M Ritti-Dias, Juan A Rivera, Cynthia Robitaille, Laura A Rodríguez-Villamizar, Rosalba Rojas-Martinez, Joel GR Roy, Adolfo Rubinstein, Blanca Sandra Ruiz-Betancourt, Eduardo Salazar Martinez, Jose Sánchez-Abanto, Ina S Santos, Diego Augusto Santos Silva, Mariana Sbaraini, Marcia Scazufca, Beatriz D Schaan, Herman Schargrodsky, Victor Sequera, Jennifer Servais, Antonio M Silva, Victoria E Soto-Rojas, Karen Sparrenberger, Aryeh D Stein, Ramón Suárez-Medina, Moyses Szklo, William R Tebar, Tania Tello, Marshall K Tulloch-Reid, Peter Ueda, Eunice Ugel, Gonzalo Valdivia, Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez, Roosmarijn Verstraeten, Cesar G Victora, Rildo S Wanderley Jr, Ming-Dong Wang, Rainford J Wilks, Roy A Wong-McClure, Novie O Younger-Coleman, Maria Elisa Zapata, Yanina Zocalo, Julio Zuñiga Cisneros, Goodarz Danaei, Gretchen A Stevens, Leanne M Riley, Majid Ezzati, Mariachiara Di Cesare
Journal: The Lancet Global Health (2019)

Describing the prevalence and trends of cardiometabolic risk factors that are associated with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is crucial for monitoring progress, planning prevention, and providing evidence to support policy efforts. We aimed to analyse the transition in body-mass index (BMI), obesity, blood pressure, raised blood pressure, and diabetes in the Americas, between 1980 and 2014.