Influence of social deprivation on provision of bariatric surgery: 10-year comparative ecological study between two UK specialist centres.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the effect of residential location and socioeconomic deprivation on the provision of bariatric surgery.

Design

Retrospective cross-sectional ecological study.

Setting

Patients resident local to one of two specialist bariatric units, in different regions of the UK, who received obesity surgery between 2003 and 2013.

Methods

Demographic data were collected from prospectively collected databases. Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD 2010) was used as a measure of socioeconomic status. Obesity prevalences were obtained from Public Health England (2006). Patients were split into three IMD tertiles (high, median, low) and also tertiles of time. A generalised linear model was generated for each time period to investigate the effect of socioecono

SUBMITTER: Bhanderi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5652494 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature