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More than one in five American adults in every U.S. state are obese, with rates rising in many states, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sept. 12 ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Twenty-three states have adult obesity rates at or above 35%, according to a new analysis from Trust for America’s Health, or TFAH. A decade ago, no state had an obesity rate ...
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] Obesity in adults is divided into three ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2023, more than one in three adults had obesity. For perspective, before 2013, no state had an adult obesity prevalence at or above 35%.
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.
Six states had a population percentage of obese adults of more than 30%; the remaining states ranged between 20% and 30%. By 2015, no state had a prevalence of obesity under 18%; almost all states exceeded 22%, and six states exceeded 26%. [ 10 ]
For the first time in a decade, rates of adult obesity in the United States have dropped, a new study has found.. The study followed nearly 17 million people, the majority of whom were in the 26 ...
The obesity rate among U.S. adults fell in 2023 for the first time in over a decade, according to a new study released on Friday. The study published in the journal JAMA Health Forum found that ...