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Impact of overweight and obesity on life expectancy, quality-adjusted life years and lifetime costs in the adult population of Ghana

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  • Stella Lartey Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, AustraliaDepartment of Economics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaMinistry of Health, Accra, GAR, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lei Si The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSchool of Health Policy & Management, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Thomas Lung The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaFaculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Costan G Magnussen Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, AustraliaResearch Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Godfred O Boateng Public Health Program, Department of Kinesiology, College of Nursing and Health Innovations, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nadia Minicuci National Research Council, Neuroscience Institute, Padova, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Paul Kowal World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, SwitzerlandResearch Centre for Generational Health and Ageing, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alison Hayes Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Barbara de Graaff Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Leigh Blizzard Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Andrew J Palmer Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, AustraliaCentre for Health Policy, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Stella Lartey; stella.lartey{at}utas.edu.au
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Lartey S, Si L, Lung T, et al
Impact of overweight and obesity on life expectancy, quality-adjusted life years and lifetime costs in the adult population of Ghana
BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e003332.

Publication history

  • Received July 4, 2020
  • Revised August 5, 2020
  • Accepted August 9, 2020
  • First published September 29, 2020.
Online issue publication 
July 06, 2022

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