• Health effects of overweight and obesity in 195 countries over 25 years 

      Afshin, Ashkan; Forouzanfar, Mohammad H.; Reitsma, Marissa B.; Sur, Patrick; Estep, Kara; Lee, Alex; Marczak, Laurie; Mokdad, Ali H.; Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar; Naghavi, Mohsen; Salama, Joseph S.; Vos, Theo; Abate, Kalkidan Hassen; Abbafati, Cristiana; Ahmed, Muktar Beshir; Al-Aly, Ziyad; Alkerwi, Ala'a; Al-Raddadi, Rajaa; Amare, Azmeraw T.; Amberbir, Alemayehu; Amegah, Adeladza K.; Amini, Erfan; Amrock, Stephen Marc; Anjana, Ranjit Mohan; Ärnlöv, Johan; Asayesh, Hamid; Banerjee, Amitava; Barac, Aleksandra; Baye, Estifanos; Bennett, Derrick A.; Beyene, Addisu Shunu; Biadgilign, Sibhatu; Biryukov, Stan; Bjertness, Espen; Boneya, Dube J.; Campos-Nonato, Ismael; Carrero, Juan Jesus; Cecilio, Pedro; Cercy, Kelly; Ciobanu, Liliana G.; Cornaby, Leslie; Damtew, Solomon Abrha; Dandona, Lalit; Dandona, Rakhi; Dharmaratne, Samath D.; Duncan, Bruce Bartholow; Eshrati, Babak; Esteghamati, Alireza; Feigin, Valery L.; Fernandes, João Carlos; Fürst, Thomas; Gebrehiwot, Tsegaye Tewelde; Gold, Audra; Gona, Philimon N.; Goto, Atsushi; Habtewold, Tesfa D.; Hadush, Kokeb T.; Hafezi-Nejad, Nima; Hay, Simon I.; Horino, Masako; Islami, Farhad; Kamal, Ritul; Kasaeian, Amir; Katikireddi, Srinivasa V.; Kengne, André Pascal; Kesavachandran, Chandrasekharan Nair; Khader, Yousef Saleh; Khang, Young-Ho; Khubchandani, Jagdish; Kim, Daniel; Kim, Yun J.; Kinfu, Yohannes; Kosen, Soewarta; Ku, Tiffany; Defo, Barthelemy Kuate; Larson, Heidi J.; Leinsalu, Mall; Liang, Xiaofeng; Lim, Stephen S.; Liu, Patrick; Lopez, Alan D.; Lozano, Rafael; Majeed, Azeem; Malekzadeh, Reza; Malta, Deborah Carvalho; Mazidi, Mohsen; McAlinden, Colm; McGarvey, Stephen Theodore; Mengistu, Desalegn T.; Mensah, George A.; Mensink, Gert B.M.; Mezgebe, Haftay B.; Mirrakhimov, Erkin M.; Mueller, Ulrich O.; Noubiap, Jean J.; Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf; Ogbo, Felix A.; Owolabi, Mayowa O.; Patton, George C.; Pourmalek, Farshad; Qorbani, Mostafa; Rafay, Anwar; Rai, Rajesh Kumar; Ranabhat, Chhabi L.; Reinig, Nikolas; Safiri, Saeid; Salomon, Joshua A.; Sanabria, Juan Ramon; Santos, Itamar S.; Sartorius, Benn; Sawhney, Monika; Schmidhuber, Josef; Schutte, Aletta E.; Schmidt, Maria I.; Sepanlou, Sadaf G.; Shamsizadeh, Moretza; Sheikhbahaei, Sara; Shin, Min-Jeong; Shiri, Rahman; Shiue, Ivy; Roba, Hirbo S.; Silva, Diego Augusto Santos; Silverberg, Jonathan I.; Singh, Jasvinder A.; Stranges, Saverio; Swaminathan, Soumya; Tabares-Seisdedos, Rafael; Tadese, Fentaw; Tedla, Bemnet Amare; Tegegne, Balewgizie S.; Terkawi, Abdullah Sulieman; Thakur, J.S.; Tonelli, Marcello; Topor-Madry, Roman; Tyrovolas, Stefanos; Ukwaja, Kingsley Nnanna; Uthman, Olalekan A.; Vaezghasemi, Masoud; Vasankari, Tommi; Vlassov, Vasiliy Victorovich; Vollset, Stein Emil; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Werdecker, Andrea; Wesana, Joshua; Westerman, Ronny; Yano, Yuichiro; Yonemoto, Naohiro; Yonga, Gerald; Zaidi, Zoubida; Zenebe, Zerihun Menlkalew; Zipkin, Ben; Murray, Christopher J.L. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-07-06)
      Background:<br> Although the rising pandemic of obesity has received major attention in many countries, the effects of this attention on trends and the disease burden of obesity remain uncertain.<br> <br>Methods: <br> We analyzed data from 68.5 million persons to assess the trends in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adults between 1980 and 2015. Using the ...
    • Prevalence and risk factors associated with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among women of reproductive age in Swaziland 

      Ginindza, Themba G.; Stefan, Cristina D.; Tsoka-Gwegweni, Joyce M.; Dlamini, Xolisile; Jolly, Pauline E.; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Broutet, Nathalie; Sartorius, Benn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-05-25)
      Background:<br>Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) remain an important public health problem with approximately half a billion new cases annually among persons aged 15–49 years. Epidemiological data on STIs among women of reproductive age in Swaziland are limited. The availability of epidemiological data on STIs and associated risk factors in this population is essential for the development of ...
    • Prevalence of and associated risk factors for high risk human papillomavirus among sexually active women, Swaziland 

      Ginindza, Themba G.; Dlamini, Xolisile; Almonte, Maribel; Herrero, Rolando; Jolly, Pauline E.; Tsoka-Gwegweni, Joyce M; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Broutet, Nathalie; Sartorius, Benn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-23)
      Background:<br>High risk human papillomavirus (hr-HPV) infection and the dual burden of HIV remains a huge challenge in some low-income countries (LICs) such as Swaziland with limited or no data. We estimated the prevalence and investigated determinants of hr-HPV, including HIV infection among sexually active women in Swaziland.<br> Methods:<br> A total of 655 women aged between 15 and 49 years ...