A qualitative research synthesis of contextual factors contributing to female overweight and obesity over the life course in sub-Saharan Africa

• Ifeoma D. Ozodiegwu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Ifeoma.ozodiegwu@northwestern.edu

  Affiliation Institute for Global Health, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7810-414X

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• Mary Ann Littleton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community and Behavioral Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Christian Nwabueze,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Oluwaseun Famojuro,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Megan Quinn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Richard Wallace,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Quillen College of Medicine Library, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Hadii M. Mamudu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Services Management and Policy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

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