Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article as a senior collaborator in the GBD 2021 Adolescent BMI Collaborators Group titled, “Global, regional, and national prevalence of child and adolescent overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: A forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021,” in The Lancet (Impact factor 98.4). The study found that in every world region between 1990 and 2021, overweight and obesity have increased among children and adolescents. This trend seems to increase warranting more concerted educational, environmental, and policy initiatives at local, national, and global levels.
