Filipino, Japanese Americans most likely amongst Asian American groups to experience obesity: study

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Obesity rates in Filipino Americans were revealed to be the highest among Asians in America at 28.7%.

Asian Americans from different ethnic groups possess significantly varied obesity rates, a new study has found.70,000 Asian Americans sampled from the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys conducted from 2013 to 2020.

They also discovered that six largest subgroups of Asian Americans — Asian Indian, Japanese, Filipino, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese Americans — had varying degrees of obesity.South Korea's new face mask that can cover only noses so its wearers can eat confuses netizens The World Health Organization recommended in 2014 that a lower threshold of a BMI ≥ 27.5 kg/m2, instead of BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2, should be used in defining obesity in Asian groups.

 

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