Prevalence and Interdependence Between Obesity and Health Care Cost in Brno - Preliminary Results From Kardiovize Brno 2030

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Prevalence and Interdependence Between Obesity and Health Care Cost in Brno - Preliminary Results From Kardiovize Brno 2030

Original language description

Insurance companies in the Czech Republic spent on the treatment of diseases associated with being overweight and obese considerable resources. Diseases associated just with obesity are often very serious and very expensive for the insurance company. This study aims to find out what is observed in a random sample of the Brno population prevalence of normal weight, overweight and obesity, and cost of each group according to health insurance company annually worth. Methods: For the purpose of the work was selected by a random sample of 1,302 volunteers from the Brno population aged 25-64 years (707 women and 595 men). Results: In the sample of the Brno population prevalence of obesity was 18.36%, 34.72% for the overweight according to BMI. Normal weight was 44.62% of the respondents, 2.30% are underweight. With the growing BMI was statistically increasing of health care cost. The underweight has lower healthcare costs (16.97%) compared to the group normal weight, group characterized as overweight cost more (6.66%). The group with obese people costs 48.23% more compared to people with normal weight. Conclusion: Obesity is defined different methodologies is a significant risk factor for serious cardiovascular disease. These diseases are manifested by increased amount of resources that must expend additional insurance cost. It was clearly demonstrated that the reported cost of health care rises with increasing weight. Therefore, insurers should make serious efforts to interventions aimed at weight reduction and in the long run reduce costs for this high-risk group. At the same time control in obese should be more numerous than the population with normal weight.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

BB - Applied statistics, operational research

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Enterprise and Competitive Environment: Conference Proceedings

ISBN

978-80-7509-342-4

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

295-303

Publisher name

Mendelova univerzita v Brně

Place of publication

Brno

Event location

Brno

Event date

Mar 5, 2015

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

000380464000033