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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 ...
The study followed nearly 17 million people, the majority of whom were in the 26-75 age range, and found that after climbing steadily since 2013, rates of obesity in the U.S. fell 0.15% in 2023 ...
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.
A PNAS report in September 2020 confirmed that the virus is much more dangerous for the elderly than the young, noting that about 70% of all U.S. COVID-19 deaths had occurred to those over the age of 70. [94] As of early August 2020, among the 45 countries that had over 50,000 cases, the U.S. had the eighth highest number of deaths per-capita.
For the first time in over a decade, obesity rates in the United States may finally be heading in the right direction and new weight loss drugs like semaglutide could be part of the reason why. A ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had many impacts on global health beyond those caused by the COVID-19 disease itself. It has led to a reduction in hospital visits for other reasons. There have been 38 per cent fewer hospital visits for heart attack symptoms in the United States and 40 per cent fewer in Spain. [1]
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.
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.