Obesity and Medicare Expenditure: Accounting for Age‐Related Height Loss
Open Access
- 1 January 2011
- Vol. 19 (1), 204-211
- https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2010.145
Abstract
To determine the relationship between BMI and Medicare expenditure for adults 65‐years and older and determine whether this relationship changes after accounting for misclassification due to age‐rela...Keywords
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