Over 40 percent of U.S. adults are now obese, with rates roughly the same for men and women, new government data shows.

A new CDC report says severe obesity is becoming more common in the U.S. Nearly 1 in 10 adults have severe obesity, and women are more likely than men to have the health condition. Yet from 2013 to 2023,

A 2021-2023 survey of around 6,000 individuals found that the obesity rate in the United States stands at approximately 40 percent.

Measures of obesity and severe obesity are determined according to body mass index, a calculation based on height and weight. People with a BMI of 30 are considered to have obesity; those with a BMI of 40 or higher have severe obesity. BMI is regarded as a flawed tool but remains widely used by doctors to screen for obesity.

The U.S. obesity rate is about 40%, according to a 2021-2023 survey of about 6,000 people. Nearly 1 in 10 of those surveyed reported severe obesity, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. Women were nearly twice as likely as men to report severe obesity.

The overall rate of obesity in the United States ticked downward between August 2021 and August 2023, breaking a streak of continued increase for over a decade.

It’s too soon to know whether new treatments for obesity, including blockbuster weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Zepbound, can help ease the epidemic.

Morbid obesity is on the rise in the US, with nearly 1 in 10 adults now classified as severely obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, based on a survey of 6,000 people,

Obesity is high and holding steady in the U.S., but the proportion of those with severe obesity — especially women — has climbed since a decade ago, according to new government research.

Severe obesity is becoming a bigger problem in the United States, according to new data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). The data found that the prevalence of severe obesity in adults increased two percent within the last decade,