About The Study: In a large California health care system, the contemporary burden of obesity varied substantially across disaggregated Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander subgroups ages 30 to 49, affecting more than half of Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander adults (body mass index [BMI] 30 or greater). Rapid temporal increases in high BMI were seen among Filipino and other Southeast Asian subpopulations where nearly 50% of females and 60% of males had a BMI greater than or equal to 27.5.
Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Joan C. Lo, MD, email Joan.C.Lo@kp.org.
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(doi:10.1001/jama.2025.9901)
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