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National-level and state-level prevalence of overweight and obesity among children, adolescents, and adults in the USA, 1990–2021, and forecasts up to 2050

Marie Ng, Xiaochen Dai, Rebecca M Cogen, Michael Abdelmasseh, Arash Abdollahi, Auwal Abdullahi, Richard Gyan Aboagye, Hana J Abukhadijah, Temitayo Esther Adeyeoluwa, Aanuoluwapo Adeyimika Afolabi, Danish Ahmad, Noah Ahmad, Ayman Ahmed, Syed Anees Ahmed, Mohammed Ahmed Akkaif, Ashley E Akrami, Syed Mahfuz Al Hasan, Omar Al Ta’ani, Fares Alahdab, Ziyad Al‐Aly, Wafa Ali Aldhaleei, Abdelazeem M. Algammal, Waad Ali, Akram Al‐Ibraheem, Saleh A. Alqahatni, Rami H. Al‐Rifai, Najim Z. Alshahrani, Mohammad Al‐Wardat, Hany Aly, Walid Al-Zyoud, Sohrab Amiri, Abhishek Anil, Jalal Arabloo, Aleksandr Y. Aravkin, Ali M. Ardekani, Demelash Areda, Mubarek Yesse Ashemo, Alok Atreya, Sina Azadnajafabad, Shahkaar Aziz, Peter Azzopardi, Giridhara R. Babu, Atif Amin Baig, Abdulaziz Bako, Kannu Bansal, Till Bärnighausen, Mohammad‐Mahdi Bastan, Maryam Bemanalizadeh, Azizullah Beran, Habtamu B. Beyene, Sonu Bhaskar, Cem Bilgin, Archie Bleyer, Hamed Borhany, Edward J. Boyko, Dejana Braithwaite, Dana Bryazka, Raffaele Bugiardini, Yasser Bustanji, Zahid A Butt, Mehtap Çakmak Barsbay, Ismael Campos‐Nonato, Francieli Cembranel, Ester Cerin, Pamela Roxana Chacón-Uscamaita, Eeshwar K Chandrasekar, Vijay Kumar Chattu, An‐Tian Chen, Guangjin Chen, Gerald Chi, Patrick R Ching, So Mi Jemma Cho, Dong‐Woo Choi, Bryan Chong, Sheng‐Chia Chung, Zinhle Cindi, Karly Cini, Alyssa Columbus, Rosa A S Couto, Michael H Criqui, Natália Martins, Omar B. Da’ar, Omid Dadras, Zhaoli Dai, Samuel Demissie Darcho, Nihar Ranjan Dash, Hardik Dineshbhai Desai, Samath Dhamminda Dharmaratne, Daniel Díaz, Michael J. Diaz, Thanh Chi, Mahsa Dolatshahi, Mario D’Oria, Ojas Prakashbhai Doshi, Rajkumar Doshi, Robert Kokou Dowou, John Dube, Dorothea Dumuid, Arkadiusz Dziedzic, Abdel Rahman E’mar

The Lancet · 2024

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Summary

BACKGROUND: Over the past several decades, the overweight and obesity epidemic in the USA has resulted in a significant health and economic burden. Understanding current trends and future trajectories at both national and state levels is crucial for assessing the success of existing interventions and informing future health policy changes. We estimated the prevalence of overweight and obesity from 1990 to 2021 with forecasts to 2050 for children and adolescents (aged 5-24 years) and adults (aged ≥25 years) at the national level. Additionally, we derived state-specific estimates and projections for older adolescents (aged 15-24 years) and adults for all 50 states and Washington, DC. METHODS: or higher, and for individuals younger than 18 years definitions were based on International Obesity

Subject
Dietary patterns & chronic disease
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(24)01548-4
Catalogue ID
SNmp99jdtp-tvhcll
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