The Department of Endocrinology, 
Analysing Obesity Epidemicity and Endemicity: Introducing New Quantitative Indices.
- Department of Endocrinology, Bharti Hospital, Karnal, India
- University Centre for Research & Development, Chandigarh University, Mohali, India.
- Department of Community/Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bathinda, India.
- Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
- Non-communicable disease unit, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association Vol. 75 · Issue 3 · pp. 503-505
PMID 40143495 DOI 10.47391/jpma.25-20
Cite This Article
Sanjay Kalra, Madhur Verma, Nitin Kapoor. Analysing Obesity Epidemicity and Endemicity: Introducing New Quantitative Indices. JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association. 2025;75(3):503-505. doi:10.47391/jpma.25-20
Abstract
As obesity becomes more and more common, it will get (or may already have) converted from an epidemic to an endemic. This opinion piece discusses these epidemiological definitions in the context of obesity and proposes three obesity epidemicity indices to quantify their indices. It discusses the rationale behind using such ratios to measure endemicity. The discussion notes how the different ratios give markedly divergent results and call for greater attention to this aspect of obesity epidemiology.
Keywords
- Endemic
- epidemic
- epidemiology
- noncommunicable disease
- overweight
- obesity
