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Obesity dipped slightly in U.S. adults last year for the first time in more than a decade, a study found. The researchers suggested that might be due, in part, to the rise of weight loss drugs ...
States in the Midwest and South have the highest rates of obesity In the Midwest, 36% of residents are considered obese. Rates are similar in the South, where 34.7% of people have high BMIs.
It had a score of 35.95 out of 100 and has the fifth highest obesity rate in the country. The state ranked as the 45th state for community health baselines, the 43rd state for healthcare access ...
The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas. [3] One way to estimate COVID-19 deaths that includes unconfirmed cases is to use the excess mortality , which is the overall number of deaths that exceed what would ...
Obesity has been cited as a contributing factor to approximately 100,000–400,000 deaths in the United States per year [58] (including increased morbidity in car accidents) [106] and has increased health care use and expenditures, [52] [107] [108] [109] costing society an estimated $117 billion in direct (preventive, diagnostic, and treatment ...
Obesity increased at a dramatic rate in New Jersey in recent years with a steep uptick following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, new data shows.
For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [10] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [9] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022.
Apr. 5—MORGANTOWN — In West Virginia, 10.6 % of the respondents questioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported suffering symptoms of long COVID, also known as post-COVID.