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SUBMITTER: Gallos LK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3400682 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gallos Lazaros K LK Barttfeld Pablo P Havlin Shlomo S Sigman Mariano M Makse Hernán A HA
Scientific reports 20120614
Obesity prevalence is increasing in many countries at alarming levels. A difficulty in the conception of policies to reverse these trends is the identification of the drivers behind the obesity epidemics. Here, we implement a spatial spreading analysis to investigate whether obesity shows spatial correlations, revealing the effect of collective and global factors acting above individual choices. We find a regularity in the spatial fluctuations of their prevalence revealed by a pattern of scale-f ...[more]