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• Lifetime Medical Costs of Obesity: Prevention No Cure for Increasing Health Expenditure 

Conclusions

Although effective obesity prevention leads to a decrease in costs of obesity-related diseases, this decrease is offset by cost increases due to diseases unrelated to obesity in life-years gained. Obesity prevention may be an important and cost-effective way of improving public health, but it is not a cure for increasing health expenditures.

Funding: This work was funded by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports. The funder did not have any role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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