After studying the relationship between body mass index at the age of 25 and obesity later in life, researchers have found that people who are obese by 25 have a much higher risk of more severe obesity after the age of 35.
The researchers, who used data from the 1999-2010 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), will publish their findings in the June issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity has risen over the past decades. The latest statistics for the US show that 35% of adults over the age of 20 are obese. The percentage of adolescents between 12 and 19 years old who are obese is 18.4%.
Conditions related to obesity include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain cancers, and the estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the US in 2008 was $147 billion.
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