I'm posting this partly so I can always find the citation myself, but I'm sure this will be useful to plenty of others out there, too. A new study published in Health Affairs (the PDF is here), researchers found that the number of children hospitalized with a primary or secondary diagnosis of obesity doubled between 1999 and 2005. That's despite the fact that the childhood obesity rate itself certainly didn't double during that period.
The citation for the study is: Trasande, L., Liu, Y., Fryer, G., & Weitzman, M. (2009). Effects Of Childhood Obesity On Hospital Care And Costs, 1999–2005. Health Affairs, 28(4), w751-w760.
It makes for interesting reading, both in terms of health outcomes and costs. I'm sure in the future this will fit into a lot of literature reviews on the necessity of addressing the childhood obesity epidemic.
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