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Rates of obesity are highest in the Midwest and South, ... On average, 33.6% of Americans were obese last year. That’s approximately the same rate the CDC recorded in 2022, which marked a subtle ...
Countries by obesity rate, data from WHO 2022. This is a list of countries by obesity rate, with data from the World Health Organization (WHO), as of 2022.
Prevalence of obesity in the adult population, top countries (2016), the United States has the tenth highest rate in the world. The CDC defines an adult (a person aged 20 years or greater) with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater as obese and an adult with a BMI of 25.0 to 29.9 as overweight. [4] Obesity in adults is divided into three ...
Obesity is becoming more common in a growing number of states, according to new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Obesity is a leading preventable cause of death worldwide, with increasing rates in adults and children. [18] In 2022, over 1 billion people lived with obesity worldwide (879 million adults and 159 million children), representing more than a double of adult cases (and four times higher than cases among children) registered in 1990.
The prevalence of obesity among adults has slightly decreased in the United States but remains higher than 10 years ago, new federal data shows. Among adults aged 20 and older, about 40.3% were ...
Katherine Mayhew Flegal is an American epidemiologist and senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.She is one of the most highly cited scientists in the field of the epidemiology of obesity according to Thomson Reuters [2] and has been called "one of the great epidemiologists" by former FDA Commissioner David A. Kessler.
A 2010 NCHS Data Brief published by the CDC found interesting trends in prevalence of childhood obesity. [13] The prevalence of obesity among boys from households with an income at or above 350% the poverty level was found to be 11.9%, while boys with a household income level at or above 130% of the poverty level was 21.1%. [13]