In 2022, over 77 percent of U.S. adults were affected by obesity, at least one chronic condition, or both, and that number rose to 99 percent among adults aged 80 and older. A new research findings ...

Compared with 2021, insurance premiums in 2022 for private-sector employees increased 2.8 percent for single coverage, 2.1 percent for employee-plus-one coverage and 2.6 percent for family coverage.

In 2020, 40.3 percent of women aged 35 and older who gave birth for the first time had a cesarean delivery, the highest rate compared with women aged 15 to 19 (15.9 percent), aged 20 to 24 (21.5 ...

Overall, 15.5 percent of U.S. noninstitutionalized adults reported having used an electronic nicotine product in 2021. (Source: AHRQ Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Statistical Brief #554, ...

In 2020, the proportion of COVID-19 patients who had an ambulatory visit ranged from 74.7 percent among poor or near-poor individuals to 90.6 percent among those with middle or high income. The ...

Among women who gave birth in 2019, those aged 25 to 34 years were nearly twice as likely to die during a delivery hospitalization (5.2 deaths per 100,000 hospitalizations) as those aged 18 to 24 (2.6 ...