Epidemiology

Obesity Epidemic Spreading, U.S. Adults Becoming More Obese

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 1st, 1999

American adults are becoming more obese and the obesity epidemic is spreading throughout the country; reversing the trend toward obesity needs to become a higher public health priority, according to an article in the October 27, 1999, issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a theme issue on obesity.

Ali H. Mokdad, PhD, Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH, and colleagues at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, evaluated a large, random-digit telephone survey of non-institutionalized adults aged 18 years and older to monitor trends by state and examine changes in the prevalence of obesity among U.S. adults from 1991 to...

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