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Nearly 60% of U.S. adults with obesity have high blood pressure and approximately 23% have diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People with obesity are also at ...
(Those are slightly higher shares than the estimate from the Center s for Disease Control and Prevention, which says around 40% of U.S. adults had obesity from 2021 to 2023.)
Share of adults that are obese, 1975 to 2016. Obesity is common in the United States and is a major health issue associated with numerous diseases, specifically an increased risk of certain types of cancer, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and cardiovascular disease, as well as significant increases in early mortality and economic costs. [1]
Adults who increase or decrease their free sugar intake increase or decrease their weight. [25] Reviews indicate that governmental health policies should be implemented to discourage intake of sugar-sweetened beverages, and reduce the obesity in children and adults. Obesity has been rising in the 21st century.
Obesity in Canada varies by ethnicity; people of Aboriginal origin have a significantly higher rate of obesity (37.6%) than the national average. [36] In children obesity has substantially increased between 1989 and 2004 with rates in boys increasing from 2% to 10% and rates among girls increasing from 2% to 9%. [37]
This piggybacks data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that roughly 14.7 million U.S. children and adolescents between the ages of 2 and 19 are impacted by childhood obesity ...
The rate of overweight and obesity in Brazilian children increased from 4% in the 1980s to 14% in the 1990s. [105] In 2007 the prevalence of children overweight and childhood obesity was 11.1% and 2.7% in girls, 8.2% and 1.5% in boys, respectively. [106]
The guidelines attempt to address the prevention and management of obesity at both the individual and population levels in both children and adults. [5] The European Union published clinical practice guidelines in 2008 in an effort to address the rising rates of obesity in Europe. [107] Australia came out with practice guidelines in 2004. [106]