Obesity and medicare expenditure: Accounting for age-related height loss

Obesity

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 204-211

  Onwudiwe, Nneka C ^a   Stuart, Bruce ^a   Zuckerman, Ilene H ^a   Sorkin, John D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY   (United States)

^b BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF REPORT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNDERWEIGHT; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; OBESITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650678327     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2010.145     Document Type: Article

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