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Difficulties in European orthopaedic care can stem from elevated obesity rates

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The rates of obesity have tripled in European countries since the 1980s and this trend poses as one of the greatest public health challenges for the 21st century, according to the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.

Based on WHO statistics, 2% to 8% of health costs and 10% to 13% of deaths in different parts of the European region are attributable to obesity.

In the United Kingdom, a study published in 2007, “The Foresight Report,” predicted about half of all U.K. citizens could be considered obese by 2050 if the current trends continue, at a cost of about £50 billion per year.

Click here to read the full story in the November/December Issue of Orthopaedics Today Europe.