A new study reveals a concerning increase in hospital admissions linked to dangerous vitamin deficiencies. Experts attribute this trend to the growing unaffordability of nutritious diets.
FRESH data shows a 'troubling' increase in the number of people admitted to hospital with health problems caused by dangerous vitamin deficiencies.The Royal College of GPs described the findings as 'very concerning', saying they're a product of a nutritious and vitamin-rich diet becoming 'increasingly unaffordable' for some.The figure is also almost 10 times bigger than the 20,396 hospital admissions for a lack of iron in 1998/99.
Meanwhile, there were 2,630 admissions in 2023/24 whose main reason was B vitamin deficiency (other than folate), up 15 per cent on the 2,236 recorded in the previous year and more than triple the 833 in 1998/1999. Vitamin B12 or folate deficiency anaemia led to 3,490 hospital admissions in 2023/24, similar to the previous year, but up four-fold from 836 in 1998/99. The numbers were even higher when taking into account patients admitted for any reason but also recorded as having a vitamin deficiency. In 2023/24, there were 804,936 courses of NHS treatment involving people who had iron deficiency anaemia, up from 721,650 the year before.There were also 38,140 courses of treatment involving people with vitamin B12 deficiency anaemia, up from 35,983 the year before, alongside 227,097 for other B vitamin deficiency, up from 201,320. The data further showed 486 courses of treatment involved people with vitamin C deficiency, up from 338 the previous year, while 773 involved a lack of calcium, up from 758. Professor Kamila Hawthorne, chairwoman of the Royal College of GPs, said: 'It is very concerning that cases of nutrition-related anaemia serious enough to warrant hospital admission have seen such a substantial increase over the past 25 years. 'The near 10-fold rise in admissions for patients with a diagnosis of iron deficiency and a four-fold increase in folate deficiencies - primarily caused by a lack of nutrition in the diet - is particularly troublin
VITAMIN DEFICIENCIES HEALTH PROBLEMS HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS NUTRITION AFFORDABILITY
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