Effects Of Childhood Obesity On Hospital Care And Costs, 1999-2005
Effects Of Childhood Obesity On Hospital Care And Costs, 1999-2005
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DOI：
10.1377/hlthaff.28.4.w751
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发表时间：
2009-07-01
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影响因子：
9.7
通讯作者：
Weitzman, Michael
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作者：
Trasande, Leonardo;Liu, Yinghua;Weitzman, Michael
儿童肥胖症越来越被认为是一种流行病，但其经济后果尚未得到很好的量化。我们使用1999-2005年美国一个具有全国代表性的住院样本数据，评估了肥胖相关住院、收费和费用的趋势。S.医院的我们发现，1999年至2005年期间，诊断为肥胖的住院人数几乎翻了一番，2001年至2005年期间，费用从1.259亿美元增加到2.376亿美元（以2005年美元计算）。医疗补助似乎承担了很大的负担，住院的条件发生沿着肥胖，而私人付款人支付更大部分的住院费用，以治疗肥胖本身。[Health Affairs 28，no. 4（2009）：w751-w760（2009年7月9日在线发布; 10.1377/hlthaff.28.4.w751）]
Childhood obesity is increasingly recognized as an epidemic, but the economic consequences have not been well quantified. We evaluated trends in obesity-associated hospitalizations, charges, and costs using 1999-2005 data from a nationally representative sample of admissions to U. S. hospitals. We detected a near-doubling in hospitalizations with a diagnosis of obesity between 1999 and 2005 and an increase in costs from $125.9 million to 237.6 million (in 2005 dollars) between 2001 and 2005. Medicaid appears to bear a large burden of hospitalizations for conditions that occur along with obesity, while private payers pay a greater portion of hospitalization costs to treat obesity itself. [Health Affairs 28, no. 4 (2009): w751-w760 (published online 9 July 2009; 10.1377/hlthaff.28.4.w751)]