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Louise A. Baur

Researcher at University of Sydney

Publications -  562
Citations -  46237

Louise A. Baur is an academic researcher from University of Sydney. The author has contributed to research in topics: Overweight & Childhood obesity. The author has an hindex of 85, co-authored 525 publications receiving 38779 citations. Previous affiliations of Louise A. Baur include Royal Prince Alfred Hospital & Children's Hospital at Westmead.

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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

Leandra Abarca-Gómez, +1024 more
- 16 Dec 2017 - 
TL;DR: Trends in mean BMI have recently flattened in northwestern Europe and the high-income English-speaking and Asia-Pacific regions for both sexes, southwestern Europe for boys, and central and Andean Latin America for girls, and by contrast, the rise in BMI has accelerated in east and south Asia forboth sexes, and southeast Asia for boys.
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Obesity in children and young people: a crisis in public health.

Tim Lobstein, +2 more
- 01 May 2004 - 
TL;DR: The present report has been written to focus attention on the issue and to urge policy-makers to consider taking action before it is too late.
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Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

Mariachiara Di Cesare, +741 more
- 02 Apr 2016 - 
TL;DR: The posterior probability of meeting the target of halting by 2025 the rise in obesity at its 2010 levels, if post-2000 trends continue, is calculated.
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Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

Bin Zhou, +497 more
- 09 Apr 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate trends in diabetes prevalence, defined as fasting plasma glucose of 7.0 mmol/L or higher, or history of diagnosis with diabetes, or use of insulin or oral hypoglycaemic drugs in 200 countries and territories in 21 regions, by sex and from 1980 to 2014.
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Interventions for treating obesity in children

Hiltje Oude Luttikhuis, +6 more
- 20 Jan 2009 - 
TL;DR: It is shown that combined behavioural lifestyle interventions compared to standard care or self-help can produce a significant and clinically meaningful reduction in overweight in children and adolescents.