The silent epidemic of obesity in The Gambia: evidence from a nationwide, population-based, cross-sectional health examination survey.

2 A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies comprising 19 million participants from 200 countries revealed an increasing trend of obesity globally. 3 If these trends continue, meeting the WHO global NCD target of halting the rise of obesity by 2025 is almost impossible. 4 A great concern is the rapid increase of obesity in SSA. 1 Countries in SSA face the challenge of the double burden of communicable and non-communicable

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