Health
Obesity Drugs Won’t Fix a Billion-Person Problem, WHO Warns
- One in eight people now live with obesity, health agency says
- Obesity among children and teens quadrupled since 1990: study
While rates of obesity have leveled off in some wealthy countries — particularly in Europe — the research team found rapid increases in low- and middle-income countries.
Photographer: Frantzesco Kangaris/Bloomberg
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Effective, popular obesity medications won’t be enough to solve a worldwide problem that now affects more than 1 billion people, World Health Organization officials warned.
Obesity has quadrupled among children and teens and more than doubled among adults since 1990, with about one in every eight people in the world living with the condition, the health agency said Thursday in the first global public analysis of the condition since 2017.