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Landmark study tied workers comp costs to obesity

March 19, 2012 Reprints

There is a strong relationship between employee weight and the rate of workers compensation claims filed, a landmark 2007 study by Duke University Medical Center concluded. Not only do obese workers file more claims, the have higher medical costs and missed more work days because of work injuries or illness than do their nonobese counterparts. Read the study.

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