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  • image link to stacked plot for population with hypertension

    Over 1.2 billion people have hypertension worldwide

  • image link to hypertension treatment map

    More than half of people with hypertension are not receiving treatment

  • image link to map plot for mean bmi

    During school ages, children in many countries fail to achieve their potential for growing taller and gain too much weight

  • image link to map plot for mean height

    Adolescents in the tallest and shortest nations are separated by more than 20 cm in height

  • image link to ranking plot for mean height

    Emerging economies have achieved some of the largest improvements in children and adolescents’ height over recent decades

  • image link to map plot for mean hdl cholesterol

    High cholesterol is responsible for about 3.9 million worldwide deaths

  • image link to bubble plot for non-hdl cholesterol

    Non-optimal cholesterol had shifted from western countries to east and southeast Asia and Pacific island nations

  • image link to map plot for urban-rural bmi difference

    More than half of the global rise in BMI over the last three decades was due to increases in BMI in rural areas

  • altmetric background for the Altmetric Top 100 list in 2017

    Our "Trends in children and adolescents body-mass index" article ranked number 7 in the Altmetric Top 100 list in 2017

  • image link to distribution plot for children and adolescents obesity prevalence

    The rise in child and adolescent obesity has accelerated in low and middle income countries

  • image link to stacked plot for adult obesity population

    More than 124 million children and adolescents and 670 million adults are now obese

  • image link to bubble plot of adult severe obesity population

    More adults in the world are now obese than underweight

  • image link to world map for diabetes prevalence

    422 million people have diabetes worldwide

  • image link to ranking plot for adult mean bmi

    Middle-income countries experience
    the highest levels of adiposity and diabetes

About NCD-RisC

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) is a network of health scientists around the world that provides rigorous and timely data on major risk factors for non-communicable diseases for all of the world’s countries.

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Latest Publications

  • 2021 Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants. Lancet
  • 2021 Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight. eLife
  • 2020 Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants. Lancet
  • 2020 Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol. Nature
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NCD-RisC in the News

  • August 31, 2021 Le Monde - Dans le monde, seule une hypertension artérielle sur cinq est correctement traitée
  • August 25, 2021 CNN - Number of people with high blood pressure has doubled globally, large study finds
  • August 25, 2021 The Indian Express - People living with hypertension doubled worldwide in 30 years to more than 1.2 billion: Study
  • August 24, 2021 Reuters - High blood pressure driven by obesity, poverty - WHO study
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