Increasing obesity adds to illness, health care costs: Study
November 18th, 2009From the New York Times, CBS News:
A study by a researcher at Emory University projects that 43 percent of American adults will be considered obese by the year 2018, an increase of almost 40 percent over today’s obese population. Kenneth E. Thorpe concluded that obesity is growing faster than any other public health condition in the nation’s history, and will cause spikes in obesity-related conditions like hypertension and diabetes.
If trends continue, the study said, health care costs related to obesity would total $344 billion in 2018, amounting to more than one in five dollars spent on health care.
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