Obesity Carries Extra Health-Care Costs
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Obese and overweight men spend much more on prescription drugs than men with normal weight, says a Mayo Clinic study. Researchers studied 328 male executives, average age
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Patients who undergo obesity surgery get far more than cosmetic benefits - many also shed fat-related ailments including diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, researchers say.    Their report - an analysis of 136 studies - suggests that in some cases, the drastic operations may alter the patient's body chemistry itself and relieve conditions that can lead to heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure...
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Amid a growing obesity epidemic in the United States, an insurance company has started giving customers another reason to slim down by being one of the first in the nation to offer discounts to customers who keep a low body-mass index.
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDayNews) -- Health-care costs for obese blacks are less than for obese whites, says a study that also concludes the costs of obesity-related health problems grow progressively greater as adults age.
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Obese mothers-to-be need significantly more NHS care than pregnant women of a healthy weight, a study says.
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Money spent on sports and exercise should be tax deductible as part of a national strategy to fight flab, say doctors in Britain who are grappling with one of the world's most rapidly growing obesity epidemics.
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Out-of-pocket costs may be causing millions of older adults in the U.S. to cut back on prescriptions for conditions as serious as diabetes, asthma and depression, a new study suggests.
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Obesity nearly doubles the risk that an otherwise healthy middle-aged man will eventually have a stroke, a long-running Swedish study finds.
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OTTAWA - Stress from high workloads is costing Canada&#39;s health-care system up to $14 billion a year in additional costs, according to a new federal study.
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Obesity appears to spread from one person to another like a virus or a fad, researchers reported yesterday in a first-of-its-kind study that helps explain -- and could help fight -- one of the nation's biggest public health problems.
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Two new studies shed light on the role obesity may play in causing heart attacks and, surprisingly, keeping them from being fatal.
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The main reason so many people lack health insurance is because of its cost and a big reason for that cost is the explosion of expensive, medically questionable care like knee replacements and lumbar fusion procedures.
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WASHINGTON - The cost of treating heart and lung disease and mental disorders led the upward push in US health care spending, according to a study examining cost jumps by medical condition.
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Being overweight can limit your health and your wealth, costing tens of thousands of dollars over a lifetime.
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WASHINGTON  - Rising obesity rates and the  number of people without health insurance are placing a drag on  health gains for the American population, according to the  results of a survey released Monday.
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Rising obesity rates and the number of people without health insurance are placing a drag on health gains for the American population, according to the results of a survey released Monday.
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How to benefit from increased spending on preventative medicine.