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Obesity a factor in 711,000 hospital admissions
A new report has shown that admissions to NHS hospitals where obesity was recorded as either a primary or secondary diagnosis increased by 15 per cent last year.
Statistics on Obesity, Physical Activity and Diet, England, 2019, an annual collection of new and previously published figures on obesity, including hospital admissions, prescription items, prevalence among adults and children as well as physical activity and diet, claims that there were 94,000 more admissions due to obesity.
Around two thirds of the admissions where obesity was recorded as either a primary or secondary diagnosis in 2017/18 were for women, and women accounted for 79 per cent of the 6,627 Finished Consultant Episodes for bariatric surgery in 2017/18.
Looking at prevalence, the report establishes that adult obesity prevalence stood at 29 per cent in 2017, an increase from 26 per cent in 2016. Prevalence of child obesity in both Reception and Year 6 was over twice as high in the most deprived areas than in the least deprived areas; 13 per cent compared to six per cent in Reception year, and 27 per cent compared to 12 per cent in Year 6.
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