The figures, initially from the 2023 Adult Obesity Prevalence Maps but updated on September ... Dr. Karen Hacker, director of ...

Rates of cancer diagnosis rates vary significantly across the U.S., with 2 million cases estimated to be diagnosed in 2024.

Kentucky, Alaska and Alabama are the three states where weight loss drugs are most used, and Hawaii, Arizona and Colorado sit at the other end of the spectrum, a report has revealed.

According to the CDC, as of August 2023, 40.3 percent of U.S. adults—some 100 million people—met the clinical definition for obesity. But this same estimate, which is based on National Health ...

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Certain factors, including income, education and access to health care, also are not available in the CDC WONDER database.

The overall rate of obesity-related heart disease deaths increased by 5.03% annually during the 21-year study period.

Among them, 60% were female and about 45% lived in the South region of the U.S. Nearly 15 million youths ages 2 to 19 have obesity in the U.S. The CDC estimates that 1 in 5 youths meet the ...

An analysis of data from the CDC’s WONDER database found that the number of people in the U.S. who died from ischemic heart disease related to obesity increased by approximately 180% from 1999 to 2020 ...

Since semaglutide was approved by the FDA for weight loss under the brand name Wegovy in 2021, GLP-1 medications—originally ...