In addition to obesity, beneficiaries were coded with overweight if the following ICD-10 codes were identified in the claims with the same requirements as the CCW OBESITY flag: E66.3, Z68.25, Z68.26, Z68.27, Z68.28
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Figures 4A and B show that VEGF and TNF- enhance retinal ICAM-1 production [47]