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AJPH First Look, published online ahead of print Jul 27, 2006
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Gender and the Burden of Disease Attributable to Obesity

Peter Muennig, MD, MPH, Erica Lubetkin, MD, MPH, Haomiao Jia, PhD and Peter Franks, MD

Peter Muennig is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Erica Lubetkin is with the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, City University of New York Medical School. Haomiao Jia is with the Department of Community Medicine, Mercer School of Medicine, Macon, Ga. Peter Franks is with the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis.


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  		FIGURE 1—— Total years of life lost and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) lost to overweight and obesity by gender per 100 000 persons for overweight males (a), overweight females (b), obese males (c), and obese females (d).

Note. The measure of morbidity is the health-related quality of life (HRQL) score translated in QALYs lost to morbidity alone.

 




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