Fast Stats
44
Million Americans are obese, reflecting an increase of 74 percent since 1991, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
36
Thousand people die each year in the U.S. from influenza and related complications. So says a report by the CDC, published in the Jan. 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Previous estimates put the number of flu-related deaths at 20,000.
1.4
Trillion dollars. That’s how much U.S. healthcare costs reached in 2001, according to a recent report published in the journal Health Affairs. Spending rose 8.7 percent and accounted for 14.1 percent of the total economy for the same year.
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