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2. 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. [2]

3. Obesity rates are above 20% in every U.S. state, CDC finds. 4 ...

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   American Indian and Alaska Natives also had a 35% obesity rate in 30 states. For comparison, the obesity rate among white adults is over 35% in 16 states (in no states was the prevalence that high ...

4. Obesity prevalence among US adults falls slightly to 40% ...

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   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 ...

5. 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)

6. ‘Alarming’: Severe obesity is climbing in the US. See who is ...

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   Obesity is high and holding steady in the U.S., but the proportion of those with severe obesity — especially women — has climbed since a decade ago, according to new government research.. The ...

7. File:United States Map of Obesity Prevalence by State (2013 ...

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   English: United States Map of Adult Obesity Prevalence by State (2013). Adult Obesity is the percentage of the adult population (age 20 and older) that reports a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30 kg/m2.

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

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   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 ...

9. Katherine Flegal - Wikipedia

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   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.