The Hefty Price Tag of Obesity

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https://healthpolicy-watch.news/the-hefty-price-tag-of-obesity/

Cost-of-illness approach

The study used a cost-of-illness approach for 28 diseases linked to overweight and obesity, including 13 cancers, six cardiovascular disease conditions, respiratory, neurological, kidney, muscular skeletal, sense organ and endocrine diseases, Nugent said. 

Globally, nearly two-in-five adults are now living with overweight and obesity. The study projects this will increase to three-in-four adults by 2060.....