Growing obesity could cost Az billions
"In Arizona, the report predicts that the number of obese adults could more than double in the same period, to 58.8 percent of the state’s population.
That would put 154,737 Arizonans at risk of type-2 diabetes while 114,546 could suffer coronary heart disease and stroke, 112,018 from hypertension, 68,326 from arthritis and 9,983 from obesity-related cancer, the report said.
That means higher costs for insurers, public and private. Dwayne Proctor, director of childhood obesity programs at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which funded the report, said this trickles down to taxpayers."
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