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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 27.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Res. 2016 May 27;118(11):1723–1735. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.115.306825

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Trends in age-adjusted prevalence of overweight and obesity categories in US adults aged 20–74 years, 1960–2012. Overweight is defined as a BMI≥25.0 kg/m2 and <30.0 kg/m2. Obese is defined as BMI ≥30.0 kg/m2. Extremely obese is defined as BMI ≥40.0 kg/m2. Data are derived from (1960–1962), NHANES I (1971–1974), NHANES II (1976–1980), NHANES III (1988–1994), and NHANES (1999–2012). Data sources: Ogden et al8 and Fryar et al123.