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Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013 Sep 5;21(12):E798–E804. doi: 10.1002/oby.20531

TABLE 5.

Additional average weight expenditures by age group (n = 39,457)

	Overall population		Ages 18–44		Ages 45–64		Age 65 and over
	Mean	Std. Err.	Mean	Std. Err.	Mean	Std. Err.	Mean	Std. Err.
People with disabilities (compared with normal weight)
Cost of being overweight	−$482	(299)	−$116	(289)	$45	(427)	−$1,375	(574)^*
Cost of being obese	$2,459	(351)^*	$2,442	(433)^*	$2,822	(523)^*	−$96	(586)
People without disabilities (compared with normal weight)
Cost of being overweight	−$120	(98)	−$28	(95)	$76	(161)	−$698	(337)^*
Cost of being obese	$889	(112)^*	$812	(134)^*	$1,197	(192)^*	$73	(342)

Source: RTI International Analysis of the 2004–2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Numbers in parenthesis are standard errors.

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