(May 2006 JRSM1) misplace their confidence by a wide margin in claiming to have reached the first 'unbiased' estimates of state and national levels and trends of obesity in the USA. To do so, they claim to have calculated rates ...
The prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States has more than tripled over the last four decades from 5 percent in 1978 to 18.5 percent in 2016. There is evidence for a break in trend in recent years: after growing from 0.4 to 0.7 percentage point per year between 1978 and 2004...
Overweight and obesity in the United States: prevalence and trends, 1960-1994. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 1998;22(1):39-47.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 3. Flegal KM, Carroll MD, Ogden CL, Curtin LR. Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999-2008. JAMA. 2010;303(...
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this nationally representative study of US children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 years, the prevalence of obesity in 2011-2014 was 17.0% and extreme obesity was 5.8%. Between 1988-1994 and 2013-2014, the prevalence of obesity increased until 2003-2004 and then ...
Conclusions and Relevance In this nationally representative study of US children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 years, the prevalence of obesity in 2011-2014 was 17.0% and extreme obesity was 5.8%. Between 1988-1994 and 2013-2014, the prevalence of obesity increased until 2003-2004 and then decr...
Understanding the trends in childhood obesity is important because obesity in childhood has many adverse effects on health in both childhood and adulthood (1,10,15). Of equal importance is tracking childhood obesity into adulthood (16). We attempted to fill a gap by exploring the trends in the...
CONTEXT: The prevalence of obesity increased in the United States between 1976-1980 and 1988-1994 and again between 1988-1994 and 1999-2000. OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in obesity from 1999 through 2008 and the current prevalence of obesity and overweight for 2007-2008. DESIGN, SETTING, AND ...
Limited data are available regarding longitudinal changes in body weight. Here, we describe changes in the prevalences of overweight and obesity and calculated the incidence of these indices during a 10-year follow-up period for a large-scale cohort stud
Prevalence of obesity and trends in the distribution of body mass index among US adults, 1999-2010. JAMA 2012; 307: 491-497.K.M. Flegal, M.D. Carroll, B.K. Kit, C.L. Ogden, Prevalence of obesity and trends in the ... Flegal,KM,Carroll,... - 《Jama the Journal of the America...
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