title: Treatment and management of obesity: is surgical intervention the answer?
abstract: Obesity is rapidly becoming a major health concern and could be considered equal to smoking as a preventable cause of premature death. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE 2006) estimated that 1.1 billion people are overweight, a number rivalling those who are underweight globally. Recent statistics for England from the National Health Service (NHS 2011) report that in 2009/10 there were 7,214 bariatric surgical procedures performed on people of varying ages.
authors.affiliation: Anglia Ruskin University, 4th Floor William Harvey Building, Chelmsford Campus, Park Road, Chelmsford CM1 1LL. angela.cobbold@anglia.ac.uk
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cobbold
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lord
mesh_terms: D050110:Bariatric Surgery; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D019468:Disease Management; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery*; D011788:Quality of Life; D013222:State Medicine; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology