Using a representative sample of US diabetes patients with comorbid hypertension and obesity, we estimate the determinants of health care expenditures. The hypothesis is that the presence of comorbid obesity and hypertension is associated with higher expenditures in the health care system. We...

We identify a representative sample of US diabetes patients with comorbid hypertension and obesity and then evaluate health-care expenditures in this population across comorbidity categories. The underlying hypothesis is that the presence of comorbid obesity and hypertension poses an additional...