TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of weight gain or loss on health care costs for employees at the Johnson & Johnson family of companies
AU - Carls, Ginger Smith
AU - Goetzel, Ron Z.
AU - Henke, Rachel Mosher
AU - Bruno, Jennifer
AU - Isaac, Fikry
AU - McHugh, Janice
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - Objective: To quantify the impact of weight gain or weight loss on health care costs. Methods: Employees completing at least two health risk assessments during 2002 to 2008 were classified as adding, losing, or staying at high/low risk for each of the nine health risks including overweight and obesity. Models for each risk were used to compare cost trends by controlling for employee characteristics. Results: Employees who developed high risk for obesity (n = 405) experienced 9.9% points higher annual cost increases (95% confidence interval: 3.0%-16.8%) than those who remained at lower risk (n = 8015). Employees who moved from high to lower risk for obesity (n = 384), experienced annual cost increases that were 2.3% points lower (95% confidence interval: -7.4% to 2.8%) than those who remained high risk (n = 1699). Conclusions:: Preventing weight gain through effective employee health promotion programs is likely to result in cost savings for employers.
AB - Objective: To quantify the impact of weight gain or weight loss on health care costs. Methods: Employees completing at least two health risk assessments during 2002 to 2008 were classified as adding, losing, or staying at high/low risk for each of the nine health risks including overweight and obesity. Models for each risk were used to compare cost trends by controlling for employee characteristics. Results: Employees who developed high risk for obesity (n = 405) experienced 9.9% points higher annual cost increases (95% confidence interval: 3.0%-16.8%) than those who remained at lower risk (n = 8015). Employees who moved from high to lower risk for obesity (n = 384), experienced annual cost increases that were 2.3% points lower (95% confidence interval: -7.4% to 2.8%) than those who remained high risk (n = 1699). Conclusions:: Preventing weight gain through effective employee health promotion programs is likely to result in cost savings for employers.
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U2 - 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31820451fd
DO - 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31820451fd
M3 - Article
C2 - 21187786
AN - SCOPUS:78751642423
SN - 1076-2752
VL - 53
SP - 8
EP - 16
JO - Journal of occupational and environmental medicine
JF - Journal of occupational and environmental medicine
IS - 1
ER -