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@ARTICLE{Gottschalk:290165,
author = {S. Gottschalk and H.-H. König and A. Weber and M. F.
Leitzmann and M. J. Stein and A. Peters and C. Flexeder and
L. Krist and S. N. Willich and K. Nimptsch and T. Pischon
and S. Gastell and K. Steindorf$^*$ and F. Herbolsheimer$^*$
and N. Ebert and K. B. Michels and A. Dorrn and V. Harth and
N. Obi and A. Karch and H. Teismann and H. Völzke and C.
Meinke-Franze and L. Klimeck$^*$ and T. Seum$^*$ and J.
Dams},
title = {{C}osts associated with insufficient physical activity in
{G}ermany: cross-sectional results from the baseline
examination of the {G}erman national cohort ({NAKO}).},
journal = {The European journal of health economics},
volume = {26},
number = {1},
issn = {1618-7598},
address = {Heidelberg},
publisher = {Springer},
reportid = {DKFZ-2024-01001},
pages = {117-128},
year = {2025},
note = {2025 Feb;26(1):117-128},
abstract = {Insufficient physical activity (PA) is a leading risk
factor for non-communicable diseases posing a significant
economic burden to healthcare systems and societies. The
study aimed to examine the differences in healthcare and
indirect costs between sufficient and insufficient PA and
the cost differences between PA intensity groups.The
cross-sectional analysis was based on data from 157,648
participants in the baseline examination of the German
National Cohort (NAKO) study. Healthcare and indirect costs
were calculated based on self-reported information on
health-related resource use and productivity losses. PA in
the domains leisure, transport, and work was assessed by the
Global Physical Activity Questionnaire and categorized into
sufficient/insufficient and intensity levels (very
low/low/medium/high) based on PA recommendations of the
World Health Organization. Two-part models adjusted for
relevant covariates were used to estimate mean costs for PA
groups.Insufficiently active people had higher average
annual healthcare costs (Δ €188, $95\%$ CI [64, 311]) and
healthcare plus indirect costs (Δ €482, $95\%$ CI [262,
702]) compared to sufficiently active people. The difference
was especially evident in the population aged 60 + years and
when considering only leisure PA. An inverse association was
observed between leisure PA and costs, whereas a direct
association was found between PA at work and costs.
Adjusting for the number of comorbidities reduced the
differences between activity groups, but the trend
persisted. The association between PA and costs differed in
direction between PA domains. Future research may provide
further insight into the temporal relationship between PA
and costs.},
keywords = {Cohort study (Other) / Exercise (Other) / Health
expenditure (Other) / Healthcare costs (Other) / Physical
activity (Other)},
cin = {C110 / C070},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)C110-20160331 / I:(DE-He78)C070-20160331},
pnm = {313 - Krebsrisikofaktoren und Prävention (POF4-313)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-313},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:38727776},
doi = {10.1007/s10198-024-01697-9},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/290165},
}