First, we would like to acknowledge the authors' effort in which they aim to identify causes behind racial disparities in obesity rates between African American and European American women. Additionally, we would like to acknowledge the inherent challenge associated with race-based studies such as ...
Obesity rates are increasing almost everywhere in the world, although the pace and timing for this increase differ when populations from developed and developing countries are compared. The sharp and more recent increase in obesity rates in many Latin American countries is an example of that and re...
et al. Age standardization of rates: a new WHO standard (WHO, 2001). Google Scholar Ahluwalia, N. et al. Trends in overweight prevalence among 11-, 13- and 15-year-olds in 25 countries in Europe, Canada and USA from 2002 to 2010. Eur. J. Public Health 25 (Suppl. 2), 28–32...
Information about sample sizes and response rates for the earlier data used in these analyses is provided in previous reports.1,3,7,18,19 Obesity Prevalence in 2013-2014 The estimated prevalence of obesity in 2013-2014 overall and by sex, age group, and race/Hispanic origin is shown in ...
In both sexes, the rs9939609 A allele was associated with higher BMI at age 11 years, but not with subsequent rates of change (Fig. 3). Fig. 3: Gene association with BMI and affective symptoms. Analysis was stratified by sex. Only significant relationships are displayed (*p < .05,...
“all states and territories had more than 15 percent of adults who were physically inactive.” The analysis included state maps that used combined data from 2015 through 2018 with “noticeable differences in the prevalence of physical inactivity by race/ethnicity.” Physical inactivity is reported ...
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: NHANES response rates and population totals. Accessed August 27, 2022. https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/responserates.aspx 33. Blüher M. Metabolically healthy obesity. Endocr Rev. 2020;41(3):405-420. doi:10.1210/endrev/bnaa004 ...
Obesity was first identified as an issue of significant public policy concern in the late 1990s, after which US obesity rates continued to grow. Now, more than one-third of adult Americans are obese or extremely obese while a further one-third or more are overweight; in addition, one-third...
The association of obesity with short-term cardiovascular disease event rates (for example, in the next 10 years) is more difficult to establish, largely because the major effects of obesity appear to act through more proximal risk factors, such as diabetes, dyslipidemia and hypertension. However,...
Increasing rates of obesity among HIV-infected persons during the HIV epidemic. PLoS One. 2010;5(4):e10106. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010106. Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar • Koethe JR, Jenkins CA, Lau B, Shepherd BE, Justice AC, Tate JP, et al. ...