New research from WHO Europe presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity in Glasgow, UK (28 April-1 May) shows there is a wide gradient of severe child obesity across Europe, with countries in Southern Europe generally having the highest rates. The paper is led by Dr. Angela Spinelli, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy and colleagues across Europe.The research paper is part of the WHO Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) led by Dr. João Breda, Head of the WHO European Office for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, Moscow, Russia and his team.
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