Cohort study observes higher inpatient hospital costs in individuals with adiposity, indicating a need for causal evaluation to guide public health investments.
Higher adiposity is associated with higher inpatient hospital costs. Further scrutiny using causal inferential methods is warranted to establish if further public health investments are required to manage the large healthcare costs observationally associated with overweight and obesity.
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