• DOI:10.1038/oby.2008.351
Corpus ID: 40159882

Will All Americans Become Overweight or Obese? Estimating the Progression and Cost of the US Obesity Epidemic

@article{Wang2008WillAA,
  title={Will All Americans Become Overweight or Obese? Estimating the Progression and Cost of the US Obesity Epidemic},
  author={Y. Wang and M. Beydoun and Lan Liang and B. Caballero and S. Kumanyika},
  journal={Obesity},
  year={2008},
  volume={16}
}

Y. Wang, M. Beydoun, +2 authors S. Kumanyika

Published 2008

Medicine

Obesity

Key MethodWe projected future prevalence and BMI distribution based on national survey data (National Health and Nutrition Examination Study) collected between 1970s and 2004. Future obesity-related health-care costs for adults were estimated using projected prevalence, Census population projections, and published national estimates of per capita excess health-care costs of obesity/overweight. The objective was to illustrate potential burden of obesity prevalence and health-care costs of obesity and…Expand Abstract

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