{"id":346,"date":"2009-02-18T17:58:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T21:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2009-02-18T17:58:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T21:58:28","slug":"report-card-for-nations-health-focuses-on-young-adults-aged-18-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2009\/02\/18\/346\/","title":{"rendered":"Report card for Nation&#8217;s health focuses on young adults aged 18-29"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:0;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">Young adults in the United States aged 18-29 face a number of health challenges, including increases in obesity, high injury rates, and a lack of insurance coverage compared to other adults, according to the latest report on the nation\u2019s health from NCHS. <\/span><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:small\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\">Obesity rates have tripled among young adults in the past three decades, rising from 8 percent in 1971-74 to 24 percent in 2005-06.<span style=\"color:#231f20\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:0;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;color:#231f20\">In 2006, 29 percent of young men were current cigarette smokers compared to 21 percent of young adult women.\u00a0<span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:0;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;color:#231f20\"><span><span style=\"font-size:small\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">In 2005, unintentional injuries (\u2018\u2018accidents\u2019\u2019), homicide, and suicide accounted for 70 percent of deaths among young adults 18\u201329 years of age. Three-quarters of the 47,000 deaths in this age group occurred among young men.<span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:0;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:small;color:#231f20\"><span><span style=\"font-size:small\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span><span style=\"font-size:small\">In 2006, <span>young adults aged 20\u201324<strong> <\/strong><\/span>were more likely to be <span>uninsured <\/span>(34 percent) than those aged 18\u201319 (21 percent) and those aged 25\u201329 (29 percent).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Verdana\">For more visit <a title=\"Link to 2008 Health United States\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hus\/hus08.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hus\/hus08.pdf<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young adults in the United States aged 18-29 face a number of health challenges, including increases in obesity, high injury rates, and a lack of insurance coverage compared to other adults, according to the latest report on the nation\u2019s health from NCHS. Obesity rates have tripled among young adults in the past three decades, rising<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,14289,32978,59415,62250,49481,62286,61990,62294,4008,62320,59509,53700,62351,32360,47334,20556,63656,63685,63702,15129,63718,53747,63748,63756,63777,63793,63796],"tags":[64094,64340,64361],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}