The impact of overweight and obesity on the direct medical costs of truck drivers

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 180-184

  Martin, Bradley C ^a   Church, Timothy S ^b   Bonnell, Ron ^c   Ben Joseph, Rami ^d   Borgstadt, Ted ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Human Centric Software   (United States)

^d SANOFI   (France)

^e TrestleTree   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILLING AND CLAIMS; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRIVER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEIGHT; CAR DRIVING; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; MOTOR VEHICLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BODY MASS INDEX; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLES; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67449098987     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181965d6e     Document Type: Article

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