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What Are the Financial Costs of Obesity?Short Articles About Obesity and Overweight
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Although the methodology varied considerably between studies, making it difficult to compare costs across countries and to extrapolate the results from one country to another, these estimates suggest that between 2-8 percent of the total sick care costs in Western countries are attributable to obesity. This represents a major fraction of national health care budgets comparable with for example, the total cost of cancer therapy. |
The potential impact on health care resources in the less developed health care systems of developing countries is likely to be even more severe.
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