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A new study on obesity found varying prevalence among Asian Americans.
The study was conducted by Northwestern University from 2013-2020 with a sample of almost 2.9 million adults from the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey. Of those surveyed, 71,057 were non-Hispanic Asian (NHA). This includes 13,916 Asian Indian, 11,686 Chinese, 11,815 Filipino, 12,473 Japanese, 3,634 Korean and 2,618 Vietnamese Americans.
The prevalence rates were as follows: 16.8% of Filipino Americans are obese, Japanese Americans come in next at 15.3%, Asian Indian Americans at 11.2%, Korean Americans with 8.5%, Chinese Americans at 6.5%, and Vietnamese Americans at 6.3%.
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