Obesity prevalence among adults in the United States decreased over the past decade, according to a research letter posted Dec. 13 on the JAMA Network.
Researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Optum Life Sciences analyzed body mass index data from 2013 to 2023 among more than 16.7 million adults, most of them between the ages of 26 and 75 (51% female and 49% male). They found that BMI measurements rose annually between 2013 and 2021, plateaued in 2022, and decreased slightly in 2023.
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