Hospital admissions for obesity in England 2002-2020, by gender
admissions due to obesity were found in the age group 45 to 54 years, with over 3.1 thousand admissions.
Since 2002 there has been a significant increase in the number of hospital admissions for obesity in England. In 2019/20, there were 8,084 hospital admissions of women with a primary diagnosis of obesity and 2,694 hospital admissions for men, although both genders had their peak number of admissions in 2011/12. The highest number of