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"...In a study in this issue of PLoS Medicine, Pieter van Baal and colleagues used data from The Netherlands to simulate the annual and lifetime medical costs attributable to obesity [1]. They also compared these costs to those attributable to smoking as well as to the medical costs associated with healthy, living persons (defined as non-smokers with a body mass index in the range of 18.5 to less than 25 kg/m2). The researchers explored the question of whether reducing obesity would lead to reduced or increased health-care costsAlso wäre es jetzt konsequent, für alle Gesundheitsbewussten, ähnlich wie für Raucher, Risikosportler oder Alkoholiker, einen Risikozuschlag zu fordern. Langlebigkeit als Kostenrisiko!
The Main Findings
The study found that although annual health-care costs are highest for obese people earlier in life (until age 56 years), and are highest for smokers at older ages, the ultimate lifetime costs are highest for the healthy (nonsmoking, nonobese) people. Hence the authors argue that medical costs will not be saved by preventing obesity.
Their results tell us that that life expectancy from age 20 is reduced by 5 years for obese people and 7 for smokers.
(Quelle: Klim McPherson in PLoS Medicine)
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