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Publication, Part of Health and Care of People with Learning Disabilities
Health and Care of People with Learning Disabilities: Experimental Statistics: 2014 to 2015
Experimental statistics, Other reports and statistics- Publication Date:
- 9 Dec 2016
- Geographic Coverage:
- England
- Geographical Granularity:
- Regions, Sub-Integrated Care Boards
- Date Range:
- 01 Apr 2014 to 31 Mar 2015
Summary
These are aggregated data on key health issues for people who are recorded by their GP as having a learning disability, and comparative data about a control group who are not recorded by their GP as having a learning disability.
Highlights
Just over 50 per cent of patients registered at General Practices in England are represented in this dataset, including 127,351 people with a learning disability and 28,832,342 people without a learning. disability
On average, females with learning disabilities had around an 18 year shorter life expectancy than the general population, and males had around a 14 year shorter life expectancy than the general population.
1 in 2 females with learning disabilities received breast cancer screening; over 2 in 3 females with no learning disabilities received breast cancer screening.
The prevalence of some conditions, including Epilepsy and Diabetes, is higher in people with learning disabilities and lower in other conditions, such as Cancer and Coronary Heart disease.
Obesity is twice as common in people aged 18-35 with learning disabilities, being underweight is twice as common in people aged over 64 with learning disabilities, compared with patients with no learning disabilities.
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