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  2. Childhood obesity - Wikipedia

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    Childhood obesity is a condition where excess body fat negatively affects a child's health or well-being. As methods to determine body fat directly are difficult, ...

  3. Epidemiology of childhood obesity - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Classification of childhood weight - Wikipedia

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    Statistics from across the globe demonstrate that approximately 22 million children under the age of five are classified as obese. [8] Some health risks associated with childhood obesity include high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

  5. Obesity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Share of adults that are obese, 1975 to 2016. Obesity is common in the United States and is a major health issue associated with numerous diseases, specifically an increased risk of certain types of cancer, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and cardiovascular disease, as well as significant increases in early mortality and economic costs. [1]

  6. 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)

  7. Thousands of weight loss drug prescriptions have been written ...

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    Bolling, who practiced adolescent obesity medicine for more than 20 years before retiring, says that, starting in the late 1990s, doctors noticed an “explosion of obesity prevalence” in kids.

  8. National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health

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    [2] [3] In the first wave of the study, the questionnaire was administered to about 20,000 adolescents, [4] making it one of the largest longitudinal surveys of adolescents ever conducted. [2] The participants were then re-interviewed in 1996 (wave II), 2001–02 (wave III), and 2008 (wave IV), with a fifth wave of data collection underway ...

  9. 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 ...