Metabolic Disorders

Shedding the Pounds: Obesity Management, NICE Guidance and Bariatric Surgery in England

1 November 2010

In December 2006, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued guidance for preventing and managing overweight and obesit. Recommendations are step-wise, starting with…

Obesity

1 July 1994

’We are unanimous in our belief that obesity is a hazard to health and a detriment to well-being. It is common enough to constitute one of…

Diabetes: a Model for Health Care Management

10 January 1989

Since the Office of Health Economics first published a paper about diabetes 25 years ago a great deal has happened. For one thing diabetes mellitus has…

Obesity and disease

1 July 1969

Attitudes towards the ‘ideal’ weight vary both from society to society and also over time. In many societies, large size and a big appetite are equated…

Pattern of Diabetes

1 July 1964

Over the past 40 years, diabetes has changed from a progressive or rapidly fatal disease in to a controlled chronic disorder with mortality confined mainly to…