{"id":7689,"date":"2024-10-18T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7689"},"modified":"2024-10-17T15:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T15:28:22","slug":"quickstats-prevalence-of-obesity-and-severe-obesity-among-persons-aged-2-19-years-united-states-1999-2000-through-2021-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2024\/10\/18\/7689\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity Among Persons Aged 2\u201319 Years \u2014 United States, 1999\u20132000 Through 2021\u20132023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/10\/mm7341a5-F.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7690 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/10\/mm7341a5-F.gif\" alt=\"Line graph showing trends in obesity and severe obesity from 1999-2000 to August 2021 - August 2023.\" width=\"539\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From 1999\u20132000 through August 2021\u2013August 2023, the prevalence of obesity among persons in the United States aged 2\u201319 years increased from 13.9% to 21.1%, and the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 3.6% to 7.0%.<\/p>\n<p><b>Supplementary Table:<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/164014\">https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/164014<\/a><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999\u20132000 through August 2021\u2013August 2023.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes\/index.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/mm7341a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/mm7341a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1999\u20132000 through August 2021\u2013August 2023, the prevalence of obesity among persons in the United States aged 2\u201319 years increased from 13.9% to 21.1%, and the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 3.6% to 7.0%. Supplementary Table:\u00a0https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/164014 Source:\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999\u20132000 through August 2021\u2013August 2023.\u00a0https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes\/index.htm https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/mm7341a5.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63673,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7689"}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7692,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7689\/revisions\/7692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}