Obesity – a growing epidemic

18th April 2018

Amit Ben-Haim, Cloudtag Inc.’s CEO comments on new figures from NHS Digital suggesting that hospital admissions where obesity is a factor have more than doubled in England during the last four years.

There were almost 617,000 appointments in 2016-17 where obesity was either a primary or secondary diagnosis – up from 292,000 in 2012-13.

Obesity is linked to a range of health problems, including heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

Cloudtag Inc.’s mission through its digital health platform focused on weight management is to reduce the number of obese people who are highly susceptible to acquiring Type II Diabetes by identifying those who are overweight in advance.

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