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14 lip 2023 · The obesity epidemic in the USA continues to escalate, posing a significant public health crisis. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the prevalence of adult obesity (BMI ≥30·0 kg/m2) increased from 30·5% in 2000 to 41·9% in 2020.
8 lut 2023 · The 4 centers of the American Heart Association Strategically Focused Research Network on Obesity probed the mechanisms and consequences of overweight and obesity through an integrated approach during fetal development into adulthood, both in animal models and in human participants.
12 paź 2022 · The obesity epidemic appeared in the USA in 1976–1980 and then spread across Westernized countries. This paper examines the most likely causes of the epidemic in the USA.
Adults with obesity in the United States compared with those with normal weight experienced higher annual medical care costs by $2,505 or 100%, with costs increasing significantly with class of obesity, from 68.4% for class 1 to 233.6% for class 3.
1 gru 2019 · This review article highlights the health implications including physiological and psychological factors comorbidities, as well as the epidemiology, risk factors, prevention, and control of childhood and adolescent obesity in the United States. Keywords: obesity, childhood, adolescents, United States, body mass index, BMI.
At least 35% of adults in 22 US states are now living with obesity, according to 2022 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 3 of those states—Louisiana, Oklahoma, and West Virginia—at least 40% of adults have obesity.
12 wrz 2024 · New CDC population data from 2023 show that in 23 states more than one in three adults (35%) has obesity. Before 2013, no state had an adult obesity prevalence at or above 35%. Currently, at least one in five adults (20%) in each U.S. state is living with obesity.
