Medical Costs Obesity 2009

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Study Estimates Medical Cost of Obesity May Be As High as $147 Billion Annually. New Community Recommendations Show Ways to Reduce Burden. The health cost of obesity in the United States is as high as $147 billion annually, based on a new …

Direct medical cost of overweight and obesity in the …

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-789X.2009.00708.x

A total of 33 US studies met review criteria. Among the four highest-quality studies, the 2008 per-person direct medical cost of overweight was $266 and of obesity …

Economic Costs | Obesity Prevention Source | Harvard T.H. Chan School ...

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-consequences/economic/

Direct medical costs of obesity in the United States and …

https://www.jmcp.org/doi/full/10.18553/jmcp.2021.20410

A review of 33 U.S. studies found that perperson direct medical costs of obesity were more than 6 times greater than those for overweight, with aggregate costs estimated to be …

Annual Medical Spending Attributable To Obesity: Payer …

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.28.5.w822

We found that the increased prevalence of obesity is responsible for almost $40 billion of increased medical spending through 2006, including $7 billion in Medicare prescription …

Consequences of Obesity | Overweight & Obesity | CDC

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Annual obesity-related medical care costs in the United States, in 2019 dollars, were estimated to be nearly $173 billion. 9 Annual nationwide productivity costs …

Direct medical costs of obesity in the United States and …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33470881/

Much of the aggregate national cost of obesity-$260.6 billion-represents external costs, providing a rationale for interventions to prevent and reduce obesity. DISCLOSURES: …

The incidence of the healthcare costs of obesity - PubMed

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Abstract. Who pays the healthcare costs associated with obesity? Among workers, this is largely a question of the incidence of the costs of employer-sponsored coverage. Using …

The Medical Care Costs of Obesity: An Instrumental …

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w16467/w16467.pdf

of the impact of obesity on medical costs that are considerably higher than the correlations reported in the previous literature. For example, obesity is associated with $676 higher …

What Are the Medical Care Costs of Obesity? - GoodRx

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Adults with heavier weights have medical expenses that cost twice as much, $5,010 annually on average, versus $2,504 for people of normal weight. Those costs …