From the Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research (Mr Lehnert, Ms Stuhldreher, Ms Streltchenia, and Dr König), Hamburg Center for Health Economics, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; IFB Adiposity Diseases (Mr Lehnert and Dr Riedel-Heller), University Medicine Leipzig, and Department for Social Medicine, Occupational Medicine, and Public Health (Mr Riedel-Heller), University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Address correspondence to: Thomas Lehnert, MSc, Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research, Hamburg Center for Health Economics, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Martinistr 52, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany ([email protected]).
This work was supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany, FKZ: 01EO1001.
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