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- Title
Lifetime medical costs of obesity: prevention no cure for increasing health expenditure.
- Authors
van Baal, Pieter H M; Polder, Johan J; de Wit, G Ardine; Hoogenveen, Rudolf T; Feenstra, Talitha L; Boshuizen, Hendriek C; Engelfriet, Peter M; Brouwer, Werner B F
- Abstract
Obesity is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and is associated with high medical expenditures. It has been suggested that obesity prevention could result in cost savings. The objective of this study was to estimate the annual and lifetime medical costs attributable to obesity, to compare those to similar costs attributable to smoking, and to discuss the implications for prevention.
- Publication
PLoS medicine, 2008, Vol 5, Issue 2, pe29
- ISSN
1549-1676
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pmed.0050029