Original title: within 10 years, the obesity rate of Chinese adults has tripled
According to a report recently published in the annals of internal medicine, the prevalence of obesity among adults in China has tripled between 2004 and 2014, and the rate of abdominal obesity has increased by nearly half. According to the data of 2013-2014 national chronic disease and risk factors monitoring survey, the researchers of China Center for Disease Control and prevention analyzed the gender and regional differences of adult obesity rate in China.
Among them, the overall obesity rate of adult men and women in China was 14% and 14.1% respectively, and the abdominal obesity rate was 30.7% and 32.4% respectively. There are obvious differences in obesity rates in different provinces. The incidence of both obesity in Beijing Tianjin Hebei region is higher than that in other regions.