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Direct Healthcare Cost of Obesity in Brazil: An Application of the Cost-of-Illness Method from the Perspective of the Public Health System in 2011

Fig 1

RR or OR for diseases associated with obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m²) and morbid obesity (BMI ≥ 40 kg/m²) in adults aged 20 and over, according to sex.

Sources: ⁶WHO 2012, ⁹Guh, 2009, ¹⁰IASO (1) (*), ¹¹Martinez, 2004, ¹²Mokdad et al, 2001, ¹³Renehan et al, 2008 (1), ¹⁴Yang, 2009. (1) RR calculated for the mean BMI of morbidly obese adults (BMI = 43.42 kg/m²) (*) In this study confidence interval for the RR were not calculated (**) outliers

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121160.g001