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Article: Obese patients have higher healthcare costs than nonobese patients.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 17, 2004
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2004 NOV 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Compared to nonobese persons, obese patients had higher average healthcare costs over a 1-year period, according to a new study.
In 2000, a National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey showed that 30.9% of people aged 20-74 years were obese, defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater. In 1995, the total costs of obesity were estimated to be over $99 billion.
Marsha A. Raebel, PharmD, from the Clinical Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente of Colorado, Denver, and colleagues compared the 1-year healthcare costs in 539 obese and 1225 nonobese people, matched by age (within 5 years), sex and primary ...