In England, 2 Million People Now Eligible For NHS Bariatric Surgery

While it's going to make government accountants cringe, 2,000,000 people in England could be eligible for weight loss surgery, according to a paper in JRSM Open. That figure far exceeds previous estimates of eligibility in England for bariatric surgery. People fulfilling the national criteria were more likely to be women, retired, have lower educational qualifications and have lower socioeconomic status. But in fuzzy estimates, proponents say spending the money on bariatric surgery – a set of surgical procedures performed on obese people to decrease their stomach size – now can greatly reduce the likelihood of obesity-related diseases including type 2 diabetes, stroke and coronary heart disease and eventual death due to those. read more

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