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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 28.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Cancer Res. 2016 Oct 31;133:23–50. doi: 10.1016/bs.acr.2016.08.002

Table 5.

Percentage of Obese US Individuals (BMI ≥30.0), by Race/Ethnicity, 1988–2012

1988–1994 1999–2002 2002–2006 2009–2012
Non-Hispanic White female 22.7 31.3 32.2 33.5
Black or African-American female 36.7 48.7 53.2 57.6

Adapted from National Center for Health Statistics (2015). Health, United States, 2014: With special feature on adults aged 55–64. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus14.pdf#059, Retrieved March 21, 2016.