Weight loss of that magnitude followed by 90% weight regain yields gross per capita lifetime Medicare savings of $9,112 $10,304 or $7,446 $8,911 over a decade.
Weight loss of that magnitude followed by weight regain yields gross per capita lifetime Medicare savings of $7,799 $11,109 or $7,654 $8,534 over 10 years.
If the weight loss were temporary, i.e., it were followed by 90% weight regain, gross per capita lifetime Medicare savings would be $7,556 $9,933 or $6,456 $7,831 over 10 years.
For adults with class II obesity (BMI ≥ 35), we found 10 15% permanent weight loss could lead to even greater gross per capita lifetime Medicare savings of $13,496 to $15,987 or $10,126 $13,474 over 10 years.
These results demonstrate that permanent weight loss of 10 15% among adults with class I obesity (BMI ≥ 30) results in gross per capita lifetime Medicare savings of $12,392 $14,116 or $9,053 $12,208 over a 10-year period.
Finally, permanent weight loss of 10 to 15% for overweight beneficiaries (BMI ≥ 27) with diabetes or hypertension would be associated with a $9,445 $12,912 reduction in gross per capita lifetime Medicare spending or $8,070 $10,180 over 10 years.
The yearly average per-capita family lifetime transportation CO2 emissions were 0.25, 0.35, 0.58, 0.78, and 0.79 metric tonnes for the commercial, mixed-commercial, mixed-residential, autonomous, and rural areas respectively.
USDA provides loss-adjusted food availability data to represent daily food consumption of Americans, males and females, in grams of food consumed daily per capita over a lifetime.
Based on these estimates and a simple model, we will then simulate the effects of changing fertility and human capital over the demographic transition on per capita GDP and lifetime consumption, on the assumption that the estimated cross sectional relationship between fertility and human capital investments held throughout the transition and will hold in the future.
Permanent weight loss of 10 to 15% will yield $9,445 to $15,987 in gross per capita savings throughout their lifetime, and $8,070 to $13,474 over ten years.
Next, we conducted counter factual simulation under alternative scenarios, assuming those with BMI ≥ 27 and one weight-related comorbidity at age 65 lose 10% or 15% of their body weight, and calculated the average 10-year and lifetime per capita expenditures under the two scenarios (with and without weight rebound).
