Obesity epidemic in urban Tanzania: a public health calamity in an already overwhelmed and fragmented health system

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[4] Yang W(2002)Obesity and the risk of heart failure N Engl J Med 347 305-313

[5] Chen CS(2018)Regional and sex-specific variation in BMI distribution in four sub-Saharan African countries: The H3Africa AWI-Gen study Glob Health Action 11 1556561-27

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[8] Coakley EH(2012)A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study 2010 Lancet 380 2224-358

[9] Kenchaiah S(2017)Obesity in low- and middle-income countries: burden, drivers, and emerging challenges Annu Rev Public Health 38 145-1252

[10] Evans JC(2011)Diet and mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa: stages in the nutrition transition BMC Public Health 11 801-152

[1] Hruby A(2015)The epidemiology of obesity: a big picture Pharmacoeconomics 33 673-689

[2] Hu FB(2008)Global burden of obesity in 2005 and projections to 2030 Int J Obes 32 1431-1437

[3] Kelly T(1999)The disease burden associated with overweight and obesity JAMA 282 1523-1529

[4] Yang W(2002)Obesity and the risk of heart failure N Engl J Med 347 305-313

[5] Chen CS(2018)Regional and sex-specific variation in BMI distribution in four sub-Saharan African countries: The H3Africa AWI-Gen study Glob Health Action 11 1556561-27

[6] Must A(2017)2015 obesity collaborators. Health effects of overweight and obesity in 195 countries over 25 years N Engl J Med 377 13-2260

[7] Spadano J(2017)Economic burden of obesity: a systematic literature review Int J Environ Res Public Health 14 435-164

[8] Coakley EH(2012)A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study 2010 Lancet 380 2224-358

[9] Kenchaiah S(2017)Obesity in low- and middle-income countries: burden, drivers, and emerging challenges Annu Rev Public Health 38 145-1252

[10] Evans JC(2011)Diet and mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa: stages in the nutrition transition BMC Public Health 11 801-152