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Global human obesity and global social index: Relationship and clustering

Frontiers in Nutrition · 6 authors, 7 centres

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This study examined the relationship between a composite global social index and obesity prevalence across countries with different human development levels.

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This cross-sectional analysis constructed a global social index from indicators including human development, social globalization, happiness, and infrastructure quality, and correlated it with national obesity data. Results indicated a positive correlation between obesity prevalence and medium human development levels, attributed to economic shifts, industrialization, and changes in diet and activity. Conversely, low human development levels showed a negative correlation due to traditional lifestyles and lower caloric access, and very high development levels showed a negative correlation possibly due to health awareness and exercise. The authors suggest these social factors are significant drivers of global obesity trends. The implications point to the need for policies addressing systemic social and economic determinants of obesity.

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PMC10092351

Global human obesity and global social index: Relationship and clustering

Frontiers in Nutrition

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Introduction Obesity, a complex, multifactorial disease, is considered a global disease burden widely affecting the quality of life across different populations. Factors involved in obesity involve genetics, behavior and socioeconomic and environmental origins, each contributing to the risk of debilitating morbidity and mortality. However, the trends across the world vary due to various globalization parameters. Methods This article tends to identify the global social indicators, compiled into a global index, and develop a correlation between the global social index created by using the human development index, social and political globalization, the global happiness index, and the quality of infrastructure, institutions, and individuals using the internet factors and its effect on global obesity. Results and Discussion Our results identified a positive correlation between medium human development levels with obesity compared to low and very high human development levels. Economic stability due to rapid industrialization has increased the buying capacity and changed the global food system, which seems to be the major driver of the rise of global obesity. Conclusion The results decipher that global social indicators and overall social index have positively affected global obesity, which will help policymakers and governmental organizations monitor the obesity patterns across their regions by a significant contribution from globally influenced social factors.

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Mubbasher Munir, Zahrahtul Amani Zakaria, Haseeb Nisar et al.. Global human obesity and global social index: Relationship and clustering. Frontiers in Nutrition. (2023). https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1150403

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Mubbasher Munir, Zahrahtul Amani Zakaria, Haseeb Nisar, Zahoor Ahmed, Sameh A. Korma, Tuba Esatbeyoglu

1Faculty of Informatics and Computing, University of Sultan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, Malaysia
2Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
3Department of Life Sciences, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
4Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
5Department of Food Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
6School of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
7Department of Food Development and Food Quality, Institute of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany