Fig. 1

Projected Rates of New Melanoma Cases vs. Prevalence of Obesity in US States. Notes: Sources: 1) Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [5]: Overweight & Obesity, Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/prevalence-maps.html 2) Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [6]: United States Cancer Statistics, available at: https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/uscs/ 3) [19], available at: https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/. Melanoma Prevalence = annual new melanoma cases per 100,000 persons adjusted for age. The graphs are based on the middle [right] columns of Table 4. The difference between the lower and upper graph emanates from the methodological changes in obesity measurement by the CDC starting from 2011