Health Status, Emotional/Behavioral Problems, Health Care Use, and Expenditures in Overweight/Obese US Children/Adolescents.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association of overweight/obesity with health, health care utilization, and expenditures in a national sample of 10- to 17-year-old children and adolescents. METHODS: Secondary analysis of 2005 to 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data (n = 17,224). Outcome measures inc...
| Publicado en: | Academic Pediatrics Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 251 - 259 |
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Elsevier B.V.
May/Jun2013
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