Obesity in Adults: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Impact on Mortality

Running head: OBESITY IN ADULTS
Obesity in adults
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OBESITY IN ADULTS
Paper chose for the literature review:
The literature review is considered as the narrative review, which consists of the
substantial finding of a few scholarly articles in order to address the concern. In this context,
obesity in an adult is one of the growing concerns worldwide since it increases the mortality rate
exponentially along with the prevalence of other diseases. In the chosen article, the data of the
national health and nutrition examination survey was brief by conducting a literature review on
seven peer-reviewed journals (Ogden et al., 2015). These journals are summaries the journal
statistical analysis of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health
Statistics, Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services in order to determine
the prevalence of the obesity of adults in united states (Flegal et al., 2010).
The prime focus of the review:
The prime focus of these review papers is the concern related to an incident of obesity
since it related to other risk factors within 2011- 2014. These review journals monitored the
prevalence of the obesity and reduction of the prevalence by to the public health programs. The
few of the journals focused on the clinical guideline along, the risk factor of the obesity, which
further give rise to other health crisis (Skinner, Perrin & Skelton 2016). The authors, Ogden,
Carroll MD and Flega (2014), focuses on the prevalence of obesity in childhood and adulthood
and how it impacted the mortality rate of the united states . Deurenberg, Deurenberg, and Guricci
(2002) focused on the obesity pattern in different countries. The authors compared and found out
that Asians are different from the Caucasians in terms of body index and body fat. Nguyen et al.
(2009), focused on the association between body mass index and hypertension between east and
southeast of Asian.