A Review of Adult Obesity Prevalence, Trends, Risk Factors, and Epidemiologic Methods in Kuwait

Table 1

Information extracted from each reviewed study by study domain.

Study publication	Study design	Study analysis	Study results
First author	Year of survey	Statistical methods	Sample size (percent males)
Publication year	Recruitment period	Statistical model adjustment factors	Age range and/or mean age
Author affiliation*	Study design type	Statistical software	Ethnicity or nationality
Journal name*	Eligibility criteria		Obesity prevalence and/or mean BMI
Journal impact factor*	Sampling source/frame		Obesity correlates and/or trend
	Sampling method
	Response rate
	Data collection method
	Type of collected data
	Obesity category^*#
	List of all collected variables reported*
	Other anthropometric measures*

∗Data for these variables are listed in the supplementary table.
^#Obesity category refers to whether obesity was examined as the main outcome or as a risk factor for other outcomes.