More than 4 in 10 U.S. adults have obesity, putting them at risk of chronic conditions like high blood pressure, type 2 ...

More than 100 million American adults have obesity and more than 20 million adults have severe obesity, U.S. figures show.

The overall rate of obesity in the United States ticked downward between August 2021 and August 2023, breaking a streak of ...

The latest CDC survey found 4 in 10 adults in the U.S. were obese. A map shows the states with the highest and lowest rates.

On Tuesday, the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics released its latest report analyzing data on the state of obesity ...

A 2021-2023 survey of around 6,000 individuals found that the obesity rate in the United States stands at approximately 40 ...

Obesity is high and holding steady in the U.S. About 4 in 10 Americans have obesity overall and about 1 in 10 have severe ...

A new CDC report says severe obesity is becoming more common in the U.S. Nearly 1 in 10 adults have severe obesity, and women ...

Measures of obesity and severe obesity are determined according to body mass index, a calculation based on height and weight.

Over 40 percent of U.S. adults are now obese, with rates roughly the same for men and women, new government data shows.