Overweight adults in the United States

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• Personal Author:
  Koch, Hugo K. ; Gagnon, Raymond O.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.). Division of Health Utilization Statistics.
• Description:
  This report presents estimates of the percentages and numbers of overweight adults in the U.S. population developed from height and weight measurements obtained as part of the Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HANES) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Also presented is a wide probability sample of 28,043 persons profile of selected body measurements of was selected to be examined from eligible
  
  these overweight persons.
  
  Estimates of the prevalence of overweight in this report are estimates of excess body weight ab&e desirable weight (mean weights for men and women aged 20-29 years) by height.
  
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• Subjects:
  Nutrition Surveys Obesity Obesity, Morbid Obesity/Epidemiology Population Prevalence
• Source:
  Advance data from Vital and Health Statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics ; no. 51 ; DHEW publication ; no. (PHS) 79-1250
• Series:
  Advance Data
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Name as Subject:
  Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (U.S.) ; Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  11 Pages
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:057194daefd308ea216bf5e4105515d4f252c99e26a3973181c93c9184c13bb20241274d4de3d5837dc68c4d91b3372d9cba82a51704a5129f7a1805188f8821
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/81412/cdc_81412_DS1.pdf
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