The Non-Linear Relationship between BMI and Health Care Costs and the Resulting Cost Fraction Attributable to Obesity

This study aims to analyse the non-linear relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and direct health care costs, and to quantify the resulting cost fraction attributable to obesity in Germany. Five cross-sectional surveys of cohort studies in southern Germany were pooled, resulting in data of 6757...

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Autores principales: Laxy, Michael, Stark, Renée, Peters, Annette, Hauner, Hans, Holle, Rolf, Teuner, Christina M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28867791
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14090984

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28867791
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14090984

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