NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)

Obesity rise plateaus in developed nations and accelerates in developing nations

Nature, vol. 653, pp. 510–518, 2026, ISSN: 1476-4687.

NCD Countdown 2030 Collaborators

Benchmarking progress in non-communicable diseases: a global analysis of cause-specific mortality from 2001 to 2019

2025, ISBN: 0140-6736.

Lopez-Jimenez F, Di Cesare M, Powis J, Shrikhande S, Adeoye M, Codato E, Zhou B, Bixby H, Evans N, Lara-Breitinger K, Rodriguez MA, Hadeed L, Barquera S, Taylor S, Perel P, Pineiro D, Narula J, Pinto F.

The Weight of Cardiovascular Diseases: Addressing the Global Cardiovascular Crisis Associated with Obesity

Global Heart, vol. 20, iss. 1, no. 68, 2025, ISSN: 2211-8179.

Soto-Mota A, Carrillo-Larco R M, Gregg E, Rojas-Martínez R, Ezzati M.

Clinical Heterogeneity and Transitions of Obesity in Mexico. A Longitudinal Analysis of Multiple Representative National Surveys

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, vol. 110, iss. 11, pp. e3648–e3655, 2025, ISSN: 1945-7197.

Lee-Boey JS, Tan JK, Lim ZF, Zaccardi F, Khunti K, Ezzati M, Gregg EW, Lim LL.

Obesity-related glomerulopathy: How it happens and future perspectives

Diabetic Medicine, vol. 42, iss. 6, no. e70042, 2025, ISSN: 1464-5491.

Wang X, Shaw JE, Yu J, Jennings G, Stavreski B, Magliano D, Gill TK, Adams R, Rodgers A, Woodward M, Schlaich MP, Singleton R, Zhou B, Schutte AE.

Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control rates of hypertension in the general population of Australia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Journal of Hypertension, vol. 43, iss. 2, pp. 185-190, 2025, ISSN: 1473-5598.

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)

Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1108 population-representative studies with 141 million participants

Lancet, vol. 404, no. 10467, pp. 2077-2093, 2024.

Xinli Song, Bin Zhou, Sarah Baird, Chunling Lu, Majid Ezzati, Li Chen

Trends and inequalities in thinness and obesity among Chinese children and adolescents: evidence from seven national school surveys between 1985 and 2019

The Lancet Public Health, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. E1025-E1036, 2024.

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)

General and abdominal adiposity and hypertension in eight world regions: a pooled analysis of 837 population-based studies with 7·5 million participants

Lancet, vol. 404, no. 10455, pp. p851-863, 2024.

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)

Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults

Lancet, vol. 403, no. 10431, pp. 1027-1050, 2024.

Victor P. F. Lhoste, Bin Zhou, Anu Mishra, James E. Bennett, Sarah Filippi, Perviz Asaria, Edward W. Gregg, Goodarz Danaei, Majid Ezzati

Cardiometabolic and renal phenotypes and transitions in the United States population

Nature Cardiovascular Research, 2023.

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)

Global variation in diabetes diagnosis and prevalence based on fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1c

Nature Medicine, vol. 29, pp. 2885-2901, 2023.

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)

Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development

Nature, no. 615, pp. 874–883, 2023.

Zhang M, Shi Y, Zhou B, Huang Z, Zhao Z, Li C, Zhang X, Han G, Peng K, Li X, Wang Y, Ezzati M, Wang L, Li Y

Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in China, 2004-18: findings from six rounds of a national survey

BMJ, vol. 380, pp. e071952, 2023.

Paalanen L, Levälahti E, Mäki P, Tolonen H, Sassi F, Ezzati M, Laatikainen T

Association of socioeconomic position and childhood obesity in Finland: a registry-based study

BMJ Open , vol. 12, no. 12, pp. e068748, 2022.