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Morbid obesity carries a large economic health care burden.(Practice Trends)
CHICAGO -- Health care costs for morbidly obese adults are nearly double those of normal-weight adults, according to a study presented at the combined annual meeting of the Central Society for Clinical Research and the Midwestern section of the American Federation for Medical Research.
Morbidly obese individuals make up less than 3% of the U.S. adult population, but they account for more than 10% of all health care spending in this country, reported the study's lead investigator, David E. Arterburn, M.D., of the University of Cincinnati.
The study defined morbid obesity as a body mass index of 40 or greater (Int. J. Obes. Relat. Metab. Disord. 2005;29:334-9).
Of U.S. health care expenditures, $56 billion were linked to excess body weight in the year 2000, up from a previously published estimate of $51.5 billion in 1998 (Obes. Res. 2004;12:18-24). Health care expenses for morbidly obese adults totaled more than $11 billion, Dr. Arterburn and his colleagues reported.
The researchers calculated this total by analyzing data from a nationally representative sample of 16,262 adults from the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.
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