Does Preventing Obesity Lead to Reduced Health-Care Costs?

Klim McPherson

PLOS Medicine, 2008, vol. 5, issue 2, 1-2

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050037

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