Projecting cost of near-universal obesity expected in U.S. by 2030
Obesity, already public health crisis, likely to cost $956.9 billion by 2030 if epidemic grows at current rate, researchers suggest. More than 86 percent of population projected to be overweight or obese by then, including 96 percent of black women and 91 percent of Mexican-American men. Analysis shows that, over time, heavy Americans become heavier.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2008-07-28
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Index: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Benjamin Caballero, Center for Human Nutrition, diabetes, diet-related disease, heart disease, hypertension, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Lan Liang, May A. Beydoun, obesity, Obesity journal, Shiriki K. Kumanyika, stroke, type 2 diabetes, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Youfa Wang