You will see the percentile lines on the chart running parallel to each other. The percentile lines include 5%, 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 90%, and 95%. (For more information, see the CDC's web site ...

Dialysis Centers used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to examine the prevalence of chronic diseases ...

Obesity and sedentary lifestyles can also help explain the sharp rise in Type 2 diabetes across the U.S. and globally over the past decade. In 2021, the CDC reported that 38.4 million Americans ...

Obesity levels have rocketed ... It marked the first year-on-year decrease since the CDC began regularly tracking the metric a decade earlier. The downward trend follows the meteoric rise of ...

Between August 2021 and August 2023, approximately 40% of U.S. adults had obesity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Around 9.4% of those adults had severe obesity.

MORE: Obesity prevalence among US adults falls slightly to 40%, remains higher than 10 years ago: CDC The report further outlines the diagnostic criteria for obesity, combining elevated BMI with ...

A recent study published in JAMA Network Open finds a strong link between prescription trends of obesity management medications and public online search activities in the United States.

Obesity medication prescriptions reached 1.5 million, driven by GLP-1 agents semaglutide and tirzepatide, as public interest ...