The Unrelenting Challenge of Obesity

Zylke and Bauchner highlight Flegal et al and Ogden et al's report related to the prevalence of obesity in the US. The news is neither good nor surprising. Using 2013-2014 data from 5,455 adults who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 35.0% of men were obese (BMI ≥30) and 5.5% were morbidly obese (BMI≥40); among adult women, 40.4% were obese and 9.9% were morbidly obese. These prevalences are unchanged since 2005 among men and represent a slight increase in obesity among women. The data for children are similar. Based on 7,017 youth 2 to 19 years old in 2011-2014, the prevalence of obesity was 17.0% and extreme obesity 5.8%. Obesity rates have decreased in children aged 2 to 5 years since 2003-2004, stabilized in 6- to 11-year-olds since 2007-2008, but steadily increased among adolescents since 1988..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:315

Enthalten in:

The journal of the American Medical Association / Englische Ausgabe - 315(2016), 21, Seite 2277-2278

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zylke, Jody W [VerfasserIn]
Bauchner, Howard [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Adults
Children & youth
Obesity
Obesity - epidemiology
Pediatric Obesity - epidemiology

doi:

10.1001/jama.2016.6190

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1977239943