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Editorial
. 2017 Apr;32(Suppl 1):6-8.
doi: 10.1007/s11606-016-3968-8.

The High and Rising Costs of Obesity to the US Health Care System

Adam Biener  1 , John Cawley  2 , Chad Meyerhoefer  3
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Editorial

The High and Rising Costs of Obesity to the US Health Care System

Adam Biener et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2017 Apr.
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Conflict of interest statement

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Cawley thanks the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for their support through an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.

Prior Presentations

None.

Disclaimer

The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality or the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Fig. 1
Predicted relationship between BMI and annual medical expenditures for all adults with biological children
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References

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    1. Cawley J, Meyerhoefer C, Biener A, Hammer M, Wintfeld N. Savings in medical expenditures associated with reductions in body mass index among adults with obesity, by diabetes status. Pharmacoeconomics. 2015;33:707–22. doi: 10.1007/s40273-014-0230-2. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Specifically, we estimated two-part IV models of health care costs in which the BMI of a biological child serves as an instrument for the BMI of the adult MEPS respondent. Given the nature of the instrument, the MEPS sample is limited to adults who have a biological child living in their household. The age restriction for adults is 20-64 years and that for biological children is 11-20 years. For more details on the models and data, please see Cawley and Meyerhoefer (2012) and Cawley, Meyerhoefer, and Biener (2015).
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