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Journal Article
Morbid obesity rates continue to rise rapidly in the United States
2013
Overview
Clinically severe or morbid obesity (body mass index (BMI) >40 or 50 kg m
−2
) entails far more serious health consequences than moderate obesity for patients, and creates additional challenges for providers. The paper provides time trends for extreme weight categories (BMI >40 and >50 kg m
−2
) until 2010, using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Between 2000 and 2010, the prevalence of a BMI >40 kg m
−2
(type III obesity), calculated from self-reported height and weight, increased by 70%, whereas the prevalence of BMI >50 kg m
−2
increased even faster. Although the BMI rates at every point in time are higher among Hispanics and Blacks, there were no significant differences in trends between them and non-Hispanic Whites. The growth rate appears to have slowed down since 2005. Adjusting for self-report biases, we estimate that in 2010 15.5 million adult Americans or 6.6% of the population had an actual BMI >40 kg m
−2
. The prevalence of clinically severe obesity continues to be increasing, although less rapidly in more recent years than prior to 2005.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group
Subject
/ Adult
/ African Americans - statistics & numerical data
/ Asian Americans - statistics & numerical data
/ Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ European Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data
/ Female
/ Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
/ Hispanic Americans - statistics & numerical data
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Medicine
/ Obesity
/ Obesity, Morbid - complications
/ Obesity, Morbid - epidemiology
/ Obesity, Morbid - prevention & control
/ Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
/ Trends
