Over weight and Obesity African American Population

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Over weight and ObesityAfrican American
Population

• Francisco Jacome MD

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Body Mass Index
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MORBID OBESITY IN AMERICA

• Obesity and its complications are the second most
  common cause of preventable death in the US
  behind smoking
• Approximately 300,000 deaths/year
• Morbid obese die 10 to 15 years earlier
• 117 billion spent in 2000
• Morbid
  Obesity is a DISEASE

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Obesity by Age and Gender
78.1 million
35.7
12.5 million
16.9
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Over 60 medical problems are seen with obesity
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• Highest rates of being overweight or obese
  compared to other groups in the US
• Four out of five women are over weight or obese
• In 2010,
• Women - 1.4 times as likely to be obese as Non-
  Hispanic Whites.
• were 70 more likely to be obese than
  Non-Hispanic White women.
• In 2007-2010,
• girls were 80 more likely to be overweight than
  Non-Hispanic White girls.

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Statistics

• Percentage of obese children and adolescents 6-17
  years of age. 2009-2010
• 25.7 14.6
• Percentage of children and teens ages 2-19 who
  were told by a doctor that they were overweight,
  2005-2008
• 49.6 38.5

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• Percentage of high school students who were
  overweight, 2011
• Girls 19.6 13.8
• Boys 12.8 14.7
• Percentage of high school students who were
  obese, 2011
• Girls 18.6 7.7
• Boys 17.7 15.0

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Questions

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