The cost of obesity in Canada

Table 2: Estimated direct costs of obesity and the selected comorbidities*
Comorbidity	Expenditure category; cost, $ thousands
	Hospital care†	Physician services	Services of other health professionals	Drugs‡	Other health care	Health research	Total cost, $ thousands	Cost attributable to obesity, $ thousands§
Breast cancer, postmenopausal	92 821	31 926	3 963	44 350	37 513	6 817	217 390	19 782
Coronary artery disease	1 080 329	275 225	34 160	318 160	222 116	2 727	1 932 717	345 956
Colorectal cancer	239 787	57 247	7 105	38 565	66 141	15 724	424 569	19 955
Endometrial cancer	23 205	6 605	820	8 677	7 897	1 363	48 567	12 919
Gallbladder disease	262 992	128 805	15 987	147 510	105 628	5 544	666 466	137 292
Hyperlipidemia	126 339	NA	NA	372 308	48 372	NA	547 019	61 266
Hypertension	97 977	265 317	75 655	1 071 137	567 629	NA	2 077 715	656 558
Pulmonary embolism	92 821	NA	NA	NA	35 538	NA	128 359	38 251
Stroke	2 036 897	77 063	9 565	318 160	394 872	909	2 837 466	106 943
Type 2 diabetes	304 245	128 805	36 729	190 896	155 974	17 996	834 645	423 165
Total							9 714 913	1 822 087
Note: NA = not available. *Amounts are given in 1997 Canadian dollars. †Includes cost of hospital drugs. ‡Excludes cost of hospital drugs. §This cost was derived by multiplying the total cost for a given comorbidity by its respective PAF (Table 1).

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