Scholes S, et al. - This research sought to calculate trends in cardiovascular disease risk factors by BMI category among adults in England (n = 115,860). Cigarette smoking, hypertension, total diabetes, and raised total cholesterol were the risk factors. Researchers estimated risk factor prevalence in the following four 4-year time periods: 2003-2006; 2007-2010; 2011-2014; and 2015-2018. This study’s findings demonstrate that the greater reductions in hypertension and raised total cholesterol among adults with overweight and obesity partially reflect improvements in screening, treatment, and control among those at highest cardiovascular risk. The data reveal that higher levels of risk factor prevalence among adults with overweight and obesity, in parallel with rising diabetes, indicate the usefulness of national prevention efforts to combat the public health impact of excess adiposity.