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Author Topic: UK: Hospital admissions for vitamin or iron deficiencies up by more than 10%  (Read 4275 times)

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In full: Andrew Gregory Health editor, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/01/hospital-admissions-lack-of-vitamins-iron-nhs-figures

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In 2023-24 there were 191,927 admissions where the main reason was a lack of iron, up 11% on 2022-23. The figure is almost 10 times the 20,396 hospital admissions for lack of iron in 1998-99.

There were also 2,630 admissions in 2023-24 where B vitamin deficiency (other than folate) was the main reason, up 15% on the previous year and more than triple the 833 in 1998-99, according to the NHS data.

Vitamin B12 or folate deficiency anaemia resulted in 3,490 hospital admissions in 2023-24, similar to the previous year but up fourfold from 836 in 1998-99, analysis by the PA Media news agency found.

Prof Kamila Hawthorne, the chair of the Royal College of GPs (RCGP), said: “The near-tenfold rise in admissions for patients with a diagnosis of iron deficiency and a fourfold increase in folate deficiencies – caused primarily by a lack of nutrition in the diet – is particularly troubling.

“We have seen fresh, healthier foods spike in price over the last few years, making a nutritious diet increasingly unaffordable for some, while fast foods are cheap, are filling and easy to access but are low in nutritious content."
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“We have seen fresh, healthier foods spike in price over the last few years, making a nutritious diet increasingly unaffordable for some, while fast foods are cheap, are filling and easy to access but are low in nutritious content."
Can't see that changing anytime in the future for the USA. If anything this situation is probably going to get worse.
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People's diets are terrible, and poverty and food prices play a big role. It's a major issue across the entire food supply chain including the underpaid farmers. Although, I do know a few people who did it to themselves with fad "healthy" diets  ::) but that's a tiny minority from those figures.
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Can't see that changing anytime in the future for the USA. If anything this situation is probably going to get worse.
crap. I just repeated this in another thread. ::) sadly I think the healthiness of America is going to take a dip soon with bad management, lack of affordable healthcare, poor diet, and a lack of healthy food.
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