OBESITY FACTS OF USA

OBESITY FACTS OF USA

Obesity is common and serious problem and its cost is very high.

As per CDC National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data, there is more than one-third (36.5%) of U.S. adults have obesity.

There may be heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer due to Obesity and which are leading causes of preventable death.

On the Obesity disease, a lot of medical expenditure is incurred. The estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the U.S. was $147 billion in 2008 U.S. dollars; the medical costs for people who are obese were $1,429 higher than those of normal weight.

As per Journal of American Medicine (JAMA), Obesity affects some groups more than others    :

Non-Hispanic blacks have the highest age-adjusted rates of obesity (48.1%) followed by Hispanics (42.5%), non-Hispanic whites (34.5%), and non-Hispanic Asians (11.7%). Obesity is higher among middle age adults age 40-59 years (40.2%) and older adults age 60 and over (37.0%) than among younger adults age 20–39 (32.3%).

As per CDC National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data, Obesity and socioeconomic status is as under:

Among non-Hispanic black and Mexican-American men, those with higher incomes are more likely to have obesity than those with low income. 

Higher income women are less likely to have obesity than low-income women.

There is no significant relationship between obesity and education among men. Among women, however, there is a trend—those with college degrees are less likely to have obesity compared with less educated women.