Annual medical spending attributable to obesity: payer-and service-specific estimates.

By E. Finkelstein, J. Trogdon, Joel W. Cohen, William Dietz. Health Affairs, 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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The Impact of Soda Taxes: Pass-Through, Tax Avoidance, and Nutritional Effects (2020, neutral): “In 2008, the estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the United States was $147 billion (https:// www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html; Finkelstein et al. 2009).”
Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift (2011, methodology): “annually [147] and this cost estimate has been used to justify efforts at obesity treatment and prevention.”
A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System (2015, background): “1 percent of annual medical spending) for treatment of obesity-related disorders, such as type 2 diabetes (Finkelstein et al., 2009).”
Pro v Con Debate: Role of sugar sweetened beverages in obesity Resolved: there is sufficient scientific evidence that decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption will reduce the prevalence of obesity and obesity-related diseases (2013, neutral): “Furthermore, in the United States alone, healthcare costs attributable to obesity were estimated at $147 billion per year in 2008 (4).”
The Role of Exercise and Physical Activity in Weight Loss and Maintenance (2013, background): “1% of annual medical expenditures.(2) Obesity is a major risk factor for many cardiovascular (CV) diseases such as coronary heart disease (CHD), heart failure (HF), stroke, ventricular dysfunction, and cardiac arrhythmias.”
The medical care costs of obesity: an instrumental variables approach. (2012, neutral): “…for the full non-institutionalized population of adults aged 18 and older was $185.7 billion in 2008 USD, which is roughly twice the estimate of Finkelstein et al. (2009).13 To put our estimate of the costs of obesity in context, total U.S. health expenditures in 2005 for the…”
Long-Term Effect of Goal-Directed Weight Management in an Atrial Fibrillation Cohort: A Long-Term Follow-Up Study (LEGACY). (2015, background): “A greater reduction in lowdensity cholesterol, triglycerides, and total cholesterol levels was seen in group 1 compared with groups TABLE 1 Baseline Characteristics $10% WL Group 1 (N ¼ 135) 3%–9% WL Group 2 (N ¼ 103) 3% WL Group 3 (N ¼ 117) p Value Age, yrs 65 11 63 11 61 11 0.06 Male 86 (64) 65 (”