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Comparisons between the geographical distribution of obesity (left) and antibiotic use in the United States, 2010 (right). Obesity trend data were from the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/). Antibiotic prescriptions were from a national survey of out-patient pharmacy records, as described by Hicks, et al.55
