{"id":638,"date":"2009-07-15T13:32:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T17:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2009-07-15T13:32:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T17:32:53","slug":"underweight-older-adults-children-decrease-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2009\/07\/15\/638\/","title":{"rendered":"Underweight older adults, children decrease in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">Poor nutrition or underlying health conditions can sometimes cause a person to be underweight. Data from the 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) showed that an estimated 1.8% of U.S. adults are underweight. Between 1988-1994 and 2003-2006, a statistically significant decrease in the percentage of those underweight was found only among those aged 60 and over. In this age group, the percentage underweight was 2.3% in 1988-1994 and 1.2% in 2003-2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">For more, visit <a title=\"Link to report on underweight in adults\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hestat\/underweight_adults.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hestat\/underweight_adults.htm<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">Results from the 2003-2006 NHANES showed that about 3.3% of children and adolescents aged 2-19 years are underweight. Trends from 1971-1974 to 2003-2006 show that there has been an overall significant decrease in underweight children and adolescents, from 5.1% to 3.3%. Underweight significantly decreased from 5.8% to 2.8% among 2-5 year olds and from 5.3% to 2.7% among 6-11 year olds. Among adolescents aged 12-19, underweight decreased, although not significantly, from 4.7% to 3.8% during the same time period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">For more, visit <a title=\"Link to report on underweight in children \" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hestat\/underweight_children.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hestat\/underweight_children.htm<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor nutrition or underlying health conditions can sometimes cause a person to be underweight. Data from the 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) showed that an estimated 1.8% of U.S. adults are underweight. Between 1988-1994 and 2003-2006, a statistically significant decrease in the percentage of those underweight was found only among those aged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62237,14289,62336,63650,63685,50899,63718],"tags":[64195,64299,7905,64341,64357],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}