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you are here: DentalPlans.com > Dental Health Articles > HealthnewsDigest.com > Obesity Among U S Adults Continues to Rise
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Updated: 7/8/2009 11:00:24 AM |
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(HealthNewsDigest.com) - The proportion of U.S. adults who are obese increased to 26.1 percent in 2008 compared to 25.6 percent in 2007. The data come from CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a state-based phone survey that collects health information from adults aged 18 and over.
In six states - Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Tennessee and West Virginia - adult obesity prevalence was 30 percent or
more. Thirty-two states, including those six, had obesity prevalence
of 25 percent or more. Only one state, Colorado, had a prevalence of
obesity less than 20 percent. But no state showed a significant
decrease in obesity prevalence from 2007 to 2008.
More than 400,000 U.S. adults were surveyed in the 2008 BRFSS, which is
the world's largest telephone health survey. To assess obesity
prevalence, survey respondents are asked to provide their height and
weight, which is used to calculate their body mass index (BMI). A
person is considered obese if they have a BMI of 30 or above.
"Obesity is a major risk factor for many chronic diseases such as heart
disease and diabetes. As obesity increases among all age groups, we are
seeing chronic diseases in much younger adults compared to a few decades
ago," said Dr. William Dietz, director, CDC's Division of Nutrition,
Physical Activity and Obesity.
"For example, we now see young adults who suffer from heart disease risk
factors and other conditions such as type 2 diabetes that were unheard
of in the past."
The 2008 BRFSS obesity data indicate that none of the 50 states or the
District of Columbia has achieved the Healthy People 2010 goal of
reducing obesity prevalence to 15 percent or less.
"The latest BRFSS survey data show that the obesity problem in this
country is getting worse," said Liping Pan, CDC epidemiologist and lead
author of the 2008 BRFSS obesity map analysis. "If this trend continues
we will likely see increases in health care costs for obesity related
diseases."
For more information on obesity trends, including an animated map, visit
www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html.
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