Associations of recent weight loss with health care costs and utilization among older women

• John T. Schousboe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: John T. Schousboe, Lisa Langsetmo, Kristine E. Ensrud

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: scho0600@umn.edu

  Affiliations HealthPartners Institute, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9329-0750

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• Allyson M. Kats ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Lisa Langsetmo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: John T. Schousboe, Lisa Langsetmo, Kristine E. Ensrud

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Brent C. Taylor ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Tien N. Vo ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Deborah M. Kado ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Howard A. Fink ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Kristine E. Ensrud

  Contributed equally to this work with: John T. Schousboe, Lisa Langsetmo, Kristine E. Ensrud

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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