The impact of excess body weight at the hospital frontline

BMC Medicine

Iain E Buchan¹  Andrew G Renehan² 

[1] MRC Health eResearch Centre, Farr Institute for Health Informatics Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK;Department of Surgery, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centrem The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Wilmslow Road, Manchester M20 4BX, UK

关键词: Data linkage;    Hospital admission rates;    Body mass index;   

Others  :  854914
DOI  :  10.1186/1741-7015-12-64

 received in 2014-03-24, accepted in 2014-03-24,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Quantification of disease burden by deaths or years lived with disability is a useful indicator as it informs prevention by accounting for health loss but it does not reflect the needs for health services. An alternative indicator is to quantify the impact of a risk factor on health care utilization. In an article published in BMC Medicine, Reeves and colleagues describe the relationship between body mass index in 1.2 million women (England) and hospital admission rates. The main finding was that around one in eight hospital admissions was attributable to overweight or obesity, translating to around 420,000 extra hospital admissions, and two million extra days spent in hospital, annually. These findings reinforce the evidence that excess body weight is associated with extensive healthcare utilization and emphasize the need to scale-up and speed-up research if global problems, such as obesity, are to be tackled with due alacrity.

Please see related research: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/12/45 webcite.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Renehan and Buchan; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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