Costs of cancer attributable to excess body weight in the Brazilian public health system in 2018.

Costs of cancer attributable to excess body weight in the Brazilian public health system in 2018.

<h4>Objectives</h4>The prevalence of excess body weight (EBW) has increased over the last decades in Brazil, where 55.4% of the adult population was overweight in 2019. EBW is a well-known risk factor for several types of cancer. We estimated the federal cost of EBW-related cancers in ad...

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Main Authors: Ronaldo Corrêa Ferreira da Silva, Luciana Ribeiro Bahia, Michelle Quarti Machado da Rosa, Thainá Alves Malhão, Eliane De Paula Mendonça, Roger Dos Santos Rosa, Denizar Vianna Araújo, Luciana Grucci Maya Moreira, Arthur Orlando Correa Schilithz, Maria Eduarda Leão Diogenes Melo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247983

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247983

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