Online Database or Online Query-Based Report Assignment

Topic Online Database Or Online Query-Based Report
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Introduction
The National Centre for Health Statistics is the legal agency of the United States that provides statistical information on the implementation of actions and policies meant to improve the health of American people. The agency conducts public health surveillance through the collection, analysis, and interpretation CITATION KMF16 \l 1033 (Carroll & Flegal, 2016). The federal government will then use this report to plan, interpret and evaluate practices in public health. This essay analyses the latest statistics on obesity among adult as retrieved from the NCHS database. The paper will specifically analyze the current demographics among adults obesity in the country.
Demographics
According to Center for Decease Control,(2017) obesity has always been a growing problem in the United States. The current trends, however, show that the growth in adult obesity has begun to slow down and to some place, it is even declined. When it comes to the state level, however, obesity growth has been reported in four States ( Minnesota, West Virginia, Colorado and Washington). It has significantly decreased in Kansas and remained stable in other States CITATION JWZ16 \l 1033 (Zylke & Bauchner, 2016). This does not mean that the rates are now good according to the data from NCHS there is need to raise more awareness and behavior change to reduce obesity rates in the country. According to NCHS ( Craig, et al., 2017) more than 36.5 % of adults are obese. Such diagnostic conditions include type 2 diabetes, stroke and other types of cancer, some of which have led to preventable death. The country also spends an annual medical budget of $147 billion for people with obesity with is $1.429 higher than those with normal weigh.
Prevalence among adults 2015-2016
According to the NCHS statistics, the obesity prevalence among adults was 39.8% between 2016-2017. When it comes to age, 40-49 42.8 percent which was greater than for adults between 20-39 year at (35.7%). There was no substantialpredominance among people of ages 60 and over which was (41.0%) and the young group. There was also a difference between men and women where it was found that women and men of age 40-59 reported higher rates of cases of obesity those aged 20-39 at 40.8%, 44.7%, and 36.5% respectively CITATION MCr17 \l 1033 (Craig, et al., 2017).
The figure below: Obesity prevalence among elder people aged 20 and above by age and sex. Source: NCHS CITATION MCr17 \l 1033 (Craig, et al., 2017)
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Prevalence among different race
The NCHS, also reports that the dominance of obesity between non-Hispanic Asian elder group was lower ( 12.7%) as compared to other races. The non-Hispanic black ( 46.8%) and Hispanics(47.0%) adults reported a high prevalence of getting obese than non-Hispanic whites at 37.9%) CITATION MCr17 \l 1033 (Craig, et al., 2017). This pattern was also similar when it came to women of di...