Health Care Expenditures Associated With Overweight and Obesity Among US Adults: Importance of Age and Race
Christina C. Wee, MD, MPH,
Russell S. Phillips, MD,
Anna T. R. Legedza, ScD,
Roger B. Davis, ScD,
Jane R. Soukup, MS,
Graham A. Colditz, MD, DrPH and
Mary Beth Hamel, MD, MPH
Christina C. Wee, Russell S. Phillips, Anna T. R. Legedza, Roger B. Davis, Jane R. Soukup, and MaryBeth Hamel are with the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. Graham A. Colditz is with the Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
FIGURE 1——Adjusted annual expenditures according to body mass index (BMI [kg/m2]), for a typical White (a) man or (b) woman, aged 35 to 44 years, who is a high school (but not a college) graduate, has private insurance coverage, and resides in a metropolitan setting in the South.
FIGURE 2——Adjusted annual expenditures according to body mass index (BMI [kg/m2]), by race/ethnicity, for a typical (a) man or (b) woman, aged 35 to 44 years, who is a high school (but not a college) graduate, has private insurance coverage, and resides in a metropolitan setting in the South.
FIGURE 3——Adjusted annual expenditures according to body mass index (BMI [kg/m2]), by age group, for a typical White (a) man or (b) woman who is a high school (but not a college) graduate, has private insurance coverage, and resides in a metropolitan setting in the South.
