Obesity-Attributable Medical Expenditures

Direct medical costs of obesity in the United States and …

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

Increases in medical expenditures due to obesity were higher for adults covered by public health insurance programs ($2,868) than for those having private health insurance ($2,058). In 2016, the aggregate medical cost due to obesity among adults in the United States …

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 …

Health and Economic Costs of Chronic Diseases | CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/about/costs/index.htm

Obesity affects 20% of children and 42% of adults, putting them at risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers. Over 25% of young …

Economic Costs | Obesity Prevention Source | Harvard …

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

Association of body mass index with health …

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247307

For both boys and girls, we found that medical expenditures only increased substantially over the 99 th percentile of BMI. Among children, obesity is associated …

Annual medical spending attributable to obesity: payer …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19635784/

This analysis presents updated estimates of the costs of obesity for the United States across payers (Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers), in separate categories for inpatient, …

Changes in healthcare spending attributable to obesity …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35562724/

Results: Total medical costs attributable to obesity rose to $126 billion per year by 2016, although the marginal cost of obesity declined for all obesity classes. The …

How much obesity costs healthcare …

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/10/obesity-healthcare-expenditure-burden/

The US is set to spend more per person treating obesity than any other OECD country. Over the next 30 years, this is expected to reach an annual outlay of …

National Medical Spending Attributable To Overweight …

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.W3.219

Combined, such expenditures account for 9.1 percent of total annual U.S. medical expenditures in 1998 and may be as high as $78.5 billion ($92.6 billion in 2002 dollars). …

National medical spending attributable to overweight and …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14527256/

Combined, such expenditures accounted for 9.1 percent of total annual U.S. medical expenditures in 1998 and may have been as high as dollar 78.5 billion (dollar 92.6 billion …