Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Early Release / Vol. 59, August 3, 2010

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• Alternative Title:
  Vital Signs: State-Specific Obesity Prevalence Among Adults — United States, 2009
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(U.S.)
• Description:
  Obesity is a costly condition that can reduce quality of life and increases the risk for many serious chronic diseases and premature death. The U.S. Surgeon General issued the Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity in 2001, and in 2007, no state had met the Healthy People 2010 objective to reduce obesity prevalence among adults to 15%.
• Subjects:
  • Age Factors
  • Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
  • Black People / statistics & numerical data
  • Black or African American
  • Educational Status
  • Healthy People Programs
  • Hispanic or Latino / statistics & numerical data
  • Income
  • Obesity / epidemiology
  • Obesity / ethnology
  More +
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), 2010; v. 59, MMWR: Early Release
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Subseries:
  MMWR: Early Release
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Issue
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  5 pdf pages
• Volume:
  59
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/257372/cdc_257372_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 674.48 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0c6bff6b007997426ff767c7f8cf6f3a48b42b0dc51c11cdda9e31b878b49ac9e79203cb0abdbe017864c72e5dc4964c3eea0d29c71a2524171bb654a1230acb