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Use rates of obesity surgery by departement in 2014
(standardised by sex and age, and for 100,000 inhabitants)

June 2017


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Source: PMSI-MCO 2014

Reading: The obesity surgery - all procedures combined - is realised very inequally throughout France. In 2014, sex and age standardized use rates vary from 8 stays for 100,000 inhabitants in Guyana and 24 in the Puy-de-Dôme to 170 in Haute-Corse and more than 140 in the Yonne and Aube departments. The national average use rate is 72 for 100,000 inhabitants.