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Asst. Prof. Dr. Sadat Abdulla Aziz, Vice President of the Cihan University-Sulaimaniya, and Researcher Nozad Hussein Mahmood, the director of the Biostatistics Consulting Unit at the Research Center, contributed to a groundbreaking study recently published in “The Lancet,” a prestigious journal with a Q1 rating in Scopus and an impact factor of 98.4, under the title “Global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021”.
This outstanding achievement marks a significant step in understanding the Global Burden of Disease.
The Key Highlights of the Study:
* The most comprehensive global analysis to date estimates that overweight and obesity rates in adults (aged 25 or older) more than doubled over the past three decades (1990-2021), affecting 2.11 billion adults’ people worldwide in 2021.
* Weight gain varies widely across the globe, with more than half of the world’s adults with overweight or obesity in 2021 living in just eight countries—China (402 million), India (180 million), the USA (172 million), Brazil (88 million), Russia (71 million), Mexico (58 million), Indonesia (52 million), and Egypt (41 million).
* Without urgent policy reform and action, around 60% of adults (3.8 billion) are forecast to be living with either overweight or obesity by 2050.
Their contribution to high-impact research demonstrates Cihan University-Sulaimaniya’s commitment to advancing global health through innovative research and collaboration with top international research groups.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00355-1/fulltext
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