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Obesity and diagnosed cases of diabetes among adults continue to rise and are at their highest levels since the government began compiling these data in 1997, according to a new survey released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
Those were the most significant, albeit unsurprising, findings of the 2009 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), which is based on interviews with 88,129 persons, says NHIS health statistician Patricia Barnes. The confidence level of the survey is 95%.
The survey found that 28% of US adults aged 20 years and older were obese (defined as a body mass index of 30 kg/m2 or more). That's a slight increase over the 2008 estimate of 27.6%. The annual prevalence of obesity has increased steadily from 19.4% in 1997.
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