Abstract Purpose of Review To provide an update on current obesity prevalence trends and
summarize the available evidence suggesting a possible plateau or stabilization in obesity …

Executive summary Liver diseases have become a major health threat across Europe, and
the face of European hepatology is changing due to the cure of viral hepatitis C and the …

Increase in prevalence of obesity has become a worldwide major health problem in adults,
as well as among children and adolescents. Furthermore, total adiposity and truncal …

Abstract Background: In Europe, although the prevalence of childhood obesity seems to be
plateauing in some countries, progress on tackling this important public health issue …

Abstract Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) European Childhood Obesity
Surveillance Initiative (COSI) was established more than 10 years ago to estimate …

Importance Studies of trends in excess weight among European children throughout the last
few decades have rendered mixed results. Additionally, some studies were outdated, were …

An increasing interest in a healthy lifestyle raises questions about optimal body weight.
Evidently, it should be clearly discriminated between the standardised “normal” body weight …

Objective: To project the prevalence of obesity across the WHO European region and
examine whether the WHO target of halting obesity at 2010 levels by 2025 is achievable …

Summary In 2015–2017, the fourth round of the World Health Organization (WHO) European
Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) was conducted in 36 countries. National …

Summary The Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) routinely measures height
and weight of primary school children aged 6–9 years and calculates overweight and …