Becker's Healthcare December 13, 2024
Paige Twenter

In 2023, the United States saw a slight decrease in obesity prevalence among adults, according to research findings published Dec. 13 in JAMA.

Amid projections of increasing obesity rates over the next decade, researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital and Optum Life Sciences analyzed body mass index data from 2013 to 2023. The dataset included nearly 48 million BMI measurements from 16.7 million nonpregnant adults.

Between 2013...

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