Cost-effectiveness of pharmacotherapy to reduce obesity.

AIMS: Obesity causes a high disease burden in Australia and across the world. We aimed to analyse the cost-effectiveness of weight reduction with pharmacotherapy in Australia, and to assess its potential to reduce the disease burden due to excess body weight. METHODS: We constructed a multi-state li...

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Main Authors: J Lennert Veerman, Jan J Barendregt, Megan Forster, Theo Vos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3203105?pdf=render