Current estimates of the economic cost of obesity in the United States

Agriculture & Biology

• economic costs 100%
• obesity 80%
• interviews 49%
• physicians 47%
• Consumer Price Index 29%
• health services 17%
• gall bladder diseases 16%
• cost of illness analysis 14%
• health care costs 12%
• osteoarthritis 11%
• prospective studies 11%
• coronary disease 11%
• noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus 10%
• colorectal neoplasms 10%
• breast neoplasms 9%
• economic impact 9%
• hypertension 9%
• morbidity 8%
• drug therapy 8%
• economics 5%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Economics 59%
• Obesity 53%
• Health Surveys 49%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 47%
• Interviews 33%
• Physicians 26%
• Colonic Neoplasms 15%
• Gallbladder Diseases 11%
• Cost of Illness 10%
• Health Expenditures 8%
• Health Care Costs 7%
• Osteoarthritis 7%
• Overweight 7%
• Coronary Disease 7%
• Health Services 7%
• Population 6%
• Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus 6%
• Data Analysis 6%
• Hypertension 5%
• Breast Neoplasms 5%
• Prospective Studies 5%
• Weights and Measures 5%
• Delivery of Health Care 5%
• Morbidity 5%

Social Sciences

• costs 43%
• economics 32%
• health 31%
• dollar 29%
• consumer price 24%
• price index 23%
• physician 23%
• interview 19%
• productivity 12%
• physician services 10%
• hospital care 10%
• US citizen 9%
• heart disease 9%
• hypertension 9%
• economic impact 8%
• morbidity 7%
• chronic illness 7%
• compromise 7%
• cancer 6%
• expenditures 6%
• medication 6%
• mortality 6%
• health service 6%
• illness 6%
• health care 5%