{"doi":"10.1002/oby.23531","title":"Medicaid expansion and health care access for individuals with obesity in the United States","abstract":"OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate associations of Medicaid expansion with health care access for adults with obesity and to explore racial/ethnic differences in these changes in health care access. METHODS: and household income ≤ 138% of the federal poverty line by state Medicaid expansion status using a difference-in-differences approach with logistic regression. The authors further stratified the main analysis by race/ethnicity. RESULTS: Medicaid expansion was associated with improvements in health care access, including lower proportions of those without a usual source of care (-3.6%, 95% confidence interval [CI]: -5.8% to -1.4%, p < 0.01) and cost as a barrier to medical care (-4.5%, 95% CI: -7.0% to -1.9%, p < 0.01). No significant changes were found in routine medical checkups in the last year (-1.8%, 95% CI: -4.4% to 0.8%, p = 0.12). However, across these measures, Medicaid expansion was consistently associated with better access among non-Hispanic White adults (-6.0% to -7.9%, p < 0.01) and not at all among non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic adults (p > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Medicaid expansion was associated with significant improvements in health care access among adults with obesity, but these improvements were variable across race and ethnicity.","journal":"Obesity","year":2022,"id":283874,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":6,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.895,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":961120,"name":"Felippe O. Marcondes","orcid":"0000-0001-6991-5055","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":233855,"name":"Fatima Cody Stanford","orcid":"0000-0003-4616-533X","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":291349,"name":"Kenneth J. Mukamal","orcid":"0000-0001-8450-6970","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":961119,"name":"Karla N. Kendrick","orcid":"0000-0002-8347-4724","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":44,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:29:32.702533Z","pmid":"36000245","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}