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The number of people admitted to hospital because of their obesity has more than tripled in five years, according to the latest official NHS figures.
The scale of the obesity crisis is clear from the latest data from the NHS Information Centre, which shows that almost all the indicators for the future of the crisis are still pointing the wrong way.
In 2011-12, there were 11,736 cases of people being admitted for hospital treatment because of obesity ? although some of them may have been admitted more than once. That is more than 11 times higher than the 1,019 cases in 2001-02 and more than three times higher than the 3,862 in 2006-07. In almost every year, more than twice as many women were admitted as men. The highest rate of admissions was in the north-east (56 per 100,000 population) and the lowest was in the east of England (12 per 100,000).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/20/obesity-crisis-women-nhs-figures
The scale of the obesity crisis is clear from the latest data from the NHS Information Centre, which shows that almost all the indicators for the future of the crisis are still pointing the wrong way.
In 2011-12, there were 11,736 cases of people being admitted for hospital treatment because of obesity ? although some of them may have been admitted more than once. That is more than 11 times higher than the 1,019 cases in 2001-02 and more than three times higher than the 3,862 in 2006-07. In almost every year, more than twice as many women were admitted as men. The highest rate of admissions was in the north-east (56 per 100,000 population) and the lowest was in the east of England (12 per 100,000).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/20/obesity-crisis-women-nhs-figures