Obesity dipped slightly in U.S. adults last year, research found — the first time in more than a decade that the country has seen a downward trend. That might be due, in part, to the recent rise ...

The obesity rate ... 2022 to 45.6 percent last year. The researchers also discovered that obesity has declined substantially in the South, including among women older adults, ages 66 to 75.

An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional Centers ... after waves of deaths in older adults and a shift in teens and younger adults away from the drugs ...

In the year 2000, approximately 16% of adolescents ... overweight might have on the future prevalence of CHD in US adults. The proportion of overweight adolescents (weight above the 95 th ...