Does Preventing Obesity Lead to Reduced Health-Care Costs?

The author discusses the implications of a new study that used data from The Netherlands to simulate the annual and lifetime medical costs attributable to obesity.

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Autor principal: McPherson, Klim
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
Materias:
Perspectives
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2225433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18254656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050037
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spelling pubmed-22254332008-02-05 Does Preventing Obesity Lead to Reduced Health-Care Costs? McPherson, Klim PLoS Med Perspectives The author discusses the implications of a new study that used data from The Netherlands to simulate the annual and lifetime medical costs attributable to obesity. Public Library of Science 2008-02 2008-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2225433/ /pubmed/18254656 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050037 Text en © 2008 Klim McPherson. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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title_full_unstemmed Does Preventing Obesity Lead to Reduced Health-Care Costs?
title_short Does Preventing Obesity Lead to Reduced Health-Care Costs?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2225433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18254656
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