Ken Thorpe, professor at Emory University’s public health school, has authored a study that looked at the medical costs of treating obesity over a 15-year period.
Between 1987 and 2002, private spending on obesity-linked medical problems mushroomed from $3.6 billion, or 2 percent of all health spending, to $36.5 billion or 11.6 percent of spending, the study, published in the journal Health Affairs, found.
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