Of the more than 1.8 million adults in England with a recorded diagnosis of overweight or obesity, only 3% are referred to publicly-funded weight management programs, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS Medicine by Karen Coulman of University of Bristol, UK, and colleagues.
management programs, including bariatric surgery for those where weight is having a serious impact on their health.to identify 1.81 million adults who had overweight or obesity documented in their primary care record between 2007 and 2020. Only 3.13% of these adults had a weight management referral recorded during the study period. In addition, only 1.09% of the 436,501 adults with severe and complex obesity underwent bariatric surgery.
There were large regional differences in these results; patients from the West Midlands were more than twice as likely to have a weight management referral than those in the North West : An observational cohort study.
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