Trends of overweight, obesity and anthropometric measurements among the adult population in Italy: The CUORE Project health examination surveys 1998, 2008, and 2018.

In Italy, the contrast to NCDs is supported by the “Gaining Health: making healthy choices easy” Programme and the National Preventive Plans (NPPs) that were implemented in a context in which NCDs were estimated to account for 91% of all deaths in the period 2000–2016, with proportional mortality from cardiovascular disease of 36% in 2016, and a decreasing trend of premature death since 2000 to 2016 for both men and women aged between 30 and 70 years up to respectively 12% and 7% in 2016 [ 19 ].The present study aimed to assess the temporal trends and distribution of anthropometric measurements (height, weight, and waist and hip circumferences) and indicat

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