{"id":6948,"date":"2020-04-03T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2020-04-03T10:00:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:00:40","slug":"quickstats-prevalence-of-obesity-and-severe-obesity-among-persons-aged-2-19-years-national-health-and-nutrition-examination-survey-1999-2000-through-2017-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/04\/03\/6948\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity Among Persons Aged 2\u201319 Years \u2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999\u20132000 through 2017\u20132018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6913a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6913a6-F.gif\" width=\"449\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From 1999\u20132000 to 2017\u20132018, the prevalence of obesity among persons aged 2\u201319 years increased from 13.9% to 19.3%, and the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 3.6% to 6.1%.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Center for Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999\u20132000 to 2017\u20132018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1999\u20132000 to 2017\u20132018, the prevalence of obesity among persons aged 2\u201319 years increased from 13.9% to 19.3%, and the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 3.6% to 6.1%. Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999\u20132000 to 2017\u20132018. https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes.htm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14289,50899,15129,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948"}],"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=6948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}