Roughly 126 million U.S. adults ages 20 and older are projected to have obesity by 2035, according to estimates from a cross-sectional analysis. In 1990, 19.3% of U.S. adults had obesity; in 2022, this rose to 42.5%. By 2035, 46.9% of the adult population is expected to have obesity, reported Catherine O. Johnson, PhD, MPH, of the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health in Seattle, and colleagues. The findings vary from those seen in recent analyses of updated CDC data and the Gallup National Health and Well-Being Index, which reported early signs of declining obesity rates, possibly driven by increasing GLP-1 receptor agonist use.
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Source: https://www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/obesity/119631