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2. List of countries by obesity rate - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of countries by obesity rate, with data from the World Health Organization (WHO), as of 2022. World Health Organization (2022 data)

3. List of sovereign states by body mass index - Wikipedia

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   Mean BMI (kg/m 2), World Health Organization (WHO), 2014 [1] ... List of countries by obesity rate; References This page was last edited on 6 January 2025, at 03:05 ...

4. Epidemiology of obesity - Wikipedia

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   Obesity has been observed throughout human history. Many early depictions of the human form in art and sculpture appear obese. [2] However, it was not until the 20th century that obesity became common — so much so that, in 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally recognized obesity as a global epidemic [3] and estimated that the worldwide prevalence of obesity has nearly tripled ...

5. US obesity rates drop for 1st time in a decade, with possible ...

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   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 ...

6. Obesity - Wikipedia

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   Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the 21st century, with rising rates in both the developed and the developing world. Rates of obesity in Canadian boys have increased from 11% in the 1980s to over 30% in the 1990s, while during this same time period rates increased from 4 to 14% in Brazilian children. [ 278 ]

7. Obesity Rates in the U.S. Drop for the First Time in a Decade ...

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   Study authors point to semaglutide medication and “behavior changes” as a possible cause for the shift

8. Obesity in the United States - Wikipedia

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   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]

9. Weight-loss drugs could boost US GDP by 1% in coming years ...

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   The current wave of healthcare innovation such as AI-powered drug discovery coupled with GLP-1s could raise the level of U.S. GDP by 1.3% in the coming years, equivalent to $360 billion per year ...