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Currently, estimates for these costs range from $147 billion to nearly $210 billion per year.1 In addition, obesity is associated with job absenteeism, costing approximately $4.3 billion annually2 and with lower productivity while at work, costing employers $506 per obese worker per year.3.
Overweight and obesity also have an increasing economic impact. For example, in the US healthcare system, medical costs of obesity are estimated to have increased from US$78.5 billion in 1998 to $147 billion in 2008. Prevention of obesity is often considered a means to reduce this economic burden. Still, information on the costâeffectiveness (CE) and long-term costs of preventing weight gain and obesity is limited to a few, mostly recently published analyses (see reviews by MÃ¼ller-Riemenschneider et al. and John et al.).