Story Highlights Lower wellbeing linked to 159 extra new conditions per 1,000 people Analysis tracks 3,654 working adults over three-year period $101.5 billion in new annual healthcare costs linked to extra conditions WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. adult workers who have poor wellbeing across most or all of the five essential elements of wellbeing are about twice as likely to report a major new chronic condition over a 36-month period of successive surveys than are their counterparts who have high