Nearly 1 in 10 American adults are severely obese, the survey finds. One expert predicts rising rates of diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
About 4 in 10 American adults are obese, and nearly 1 in 10 is severely so, government researchers say.
The survey found that the obesity rate was 42% — higher than the 40% found in a similar 2015-16 study. The severe obesity rate was more than 9% in the new survey, up from the 8% figure in the previous one. A half-century ago, about 1 in 100 American adults were severely obese. Now the condition is 10 times more common.The findings suggest that more Americans will get diabetes, heart disease and cancer, said Dr. William Dietz, a George Washington University obesity expert.It also will be increasingly difficult for doctors to care for so many severely obese people, Dietz said. He has estimated that on average, every primary care doctor treating adults has about 100 severely obese patients.
Obesity — which means not merely being overweight, but seriously overweight — is considered one of the nation’s leading public health problems.
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