Summary health statistics for U.S. adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2007.

Abstract

In 2007, 61% of adults 18 years of age or over reported excellent or very good health. Sixty-one percent of adults never participated in any type of vigorous leisure-time physical activity, and 15% of adults did not have a usual place of health care. Eleven percent of adults had been told by a doctor or health professional that they had heart disease, and 23% had been told on two or more visits that they had hypertension. Twenty percent of all adults were current smokers and 21% were former smokers. Based on estimates of body mass index, 35% of adults were overweight and 26% were obese.