title: Why weight should be the fifth vital sign we check.
abstract: The disturbing fact that more than 1.9 billion adults across the world are overweight was revealed in the Global Burden of Disease Study in 2013. The study classes more than 600 million of these people as obese, representing 13% of the worldwide adult population.
mesh_terms: D001835:Body Weight; D006801:Humans; D055986:Vital Signs