Economic Costs of Abdominal Obesity

Economic costs of abdominal obesity.

BACKGROUND To examine the relationship between waist circumference and future health care costs across a broad range of waist circumference values based on individual level data. METHOD A prospective cohort of 31,840 subjects aged 50-64 years at baseline had health status, lifestyle and socio-economic aspects assessed at entry. Individual data on health care consumption and associated costs w...

Obesity-Associated Abdominal Elephantiasis

Abdominal elephantiasis is a rare entity. Abdominal elephantiasis is an uncommon, but deformative and progressive cutaneous disease caused by chronic lymphedema and recurrent streptococcal or Staphylococcus infections of the abdominal wall. We present 3 cases of patients with morbid obesity who presented to our hospital with abdominal wall swelling, thickening, erythema, and pain. The abdominal...

Author ' s response to reviews Title : Economic costs of obesity in Thailand : Cost - of - illness study

Economic costs of obesity in Thailand: a retrospective cost-of-illness study

BACKGROUND Over the last decade, the prevalence of obesity (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2) in Thailand has been rising rapidly and consistently. Estimating the cost of obesity to society is an essential step in setting priorities for research and resource use and helping improve public awareness of the negative economic impacts of obesity. This prevalence-based, cost-of-illness study aims to estimate the econ...

The economic costs of obesity and the impact of bariatric surgery.

The obesity epidemic has far-reaching implications for the economic and health care future in the United States. Treatments that show reduction in health care costs over time should be approved and made available to as many patients as possible. It is our opinion that bariatric surgery meets this criterion. However, bariatric surgery cannot provide the impact necessary for reduction in health c...