Annotated Bibliography for Research Paper "Obesity in Americans"

Flegal, K. M., Carroll, M. D., Ogden, C. L., & Curtin, L. R. (2010). Prevalence and trends in obesity among U.S. adults, 1999-2008. Journal of the American Medical Association, 303(3), 235-241. doi:

This study determine the trends related to obesity from year 1999 to 2008 and also provides the current incidence rate of overweight and obesity for year 2007-08. National Health and Nutritional Examination survey has been used to gather the data for this study. The survey sample size is 5,555 adult men and women with age 20 or above and their weight and height measurements have been recorded. The study states the analysis and also makes comparative analysis with study for obesity done in year 1999 to 2006. ...