| CDC Reports Obesity Rises 25% in 1 year CDC researchers surveyed over 400,000 adults in all 50 states and obtained a variety of physicial factors. The researchers reported that adult obesity in the US rose 25% since 2008. This is a dramatic increase when compared to the same clinical parameters (height, weight, BMI) when longitudinally compared over the last 20 years. In 6 states — Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia — the prevalence of obesity that was 30% or higher. These data were collected from the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey, which is the largest state-based telephone health information survey of adults aged 18 years and older. According to the survey, in 1990, less than 15% of adults were obese in all states. However, in 9 years, the prevalence of obesity sharply increased; no state had a prevalence of obesity that was less than 10%, and in 18 states, between 20% and 24% of adults were obese. By 2008, only 1 state (Colorado) had a prevalence of obesity that was less than 20%. "[T]he 2008 [Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System] 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% or less," according to a CDC news release. "The latest survey data show that the obesity problem in this country is getting worse," Liping Pan, MD, MPH, a CDC epidemiologist and lead author of the 2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System obesity map analysis, said in a CDC news release. "If this trend continues we will likely see increases in healthcare costs for obesity-related diseases." More information is available on the CDC Web site. |
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