The Health and Cost Consequences of Obesity Among the Future Elderly

Darius N. Lakdawalla, Dana P. Goldman, Baoping Shang

ResearchPosted on rand.org 2005Published In: Health Affairs - Web Exclusive, Sep. 26, 2005, p. W5-R30-W5-R41

Obesity could have serious consequences for older cohorts. The authors used a microsimulation to estimate lifetime costs, life expectancy, disease, and disability for seventy-year-olds based on body mass. Obese seventy-year-olds will live about as long as those of normal weight but will spend more than

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  • Copyright: Project HOPE
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2005
  • Pages: 12
  • Document Number: EP-200509-13

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