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Obesity

Lead analyst: Laurence Ramsay

  • There has been a rapid increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in recent years, with the proportion of adults in England with a healthy BMI (18.5-24.9) decreasing between 1993 and 2007 from 41% to 34% among men and 50% to 42% among women.


  • Currently 24% of men and women (aged 16 years and over) are obese (HSE 2007). In addition 10.4% of boys and 8.8% of girls (average 9.6%) in Reception year (aged 4-5 years) and 20% of boys and 16.6% of girls (average 18.3%) in Year 6 (aged 10-11 years) are also classified as obese according to the British 1990 population monitoring definition of obesity (≥95th centile) (NCMP 2007/08).


  • By 2050 the prevalence of obesity is predicted to affect 60% of adult men, 50% of adult women and 25% of children (Foresight 2007).



The National Obesity Observatory is a single point of contact for wide-ranging authoritative information on data, evidence and practice related to obesity, overweight, underweight and their determinants.

Please see erpho's separate page on Childhood Obesity.

 
Data and other resources

For Synthetic Estimates of Healthy Lifestyle Behaviours at Ward Level and PCO level for the East of England - click here

Click here for a summary report of public health indicators from primary care electronic data from QResearch database - by the end of March 2007 QResearch showed:

  • 58% of registered patients aged 16 had had their body mass index (BMI) recorded in the past 5 years. Of these 26% were obese (BMI>30).
  • 80% of registered patients aged 16 had smoking information recorded within their electronic health record in the past 5 years. Of these 22% were recorded as being current smokers.
  • 76% of registered patients aged 16 had blood pressure recorded in the preceding 5 years.
  • 34% of registered patients aged 16 had total cholesterol recorded within the past 5 years and 28% had HDL (high-density lipoprotein) recorded.
  • 12% of all registered patients in QRESEARCH practices had ethnicity recorded using the 1991 census codes, and 11% using the 2001 census codes, in the preceding 5 years.

erpho's QOF page has further resources and data relating to primary care.

For a summary of National Diet and Nutrition Survey reports held on the erpho website please click here.