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Hospitals to purchase new equipment to care for obese patients
Healthcare Strategist Trend Watch, November 3, 2006
More hospitals are making changes to accommodate the rising number of morbidly obese patients, offering bariatric surgery, as well as other obesity-related procedures and tests, according to a report by the Toronto-based healthcare strategic information firm Millennium Research Group (MRG). "Bariatric equipment such as wheelchairs, beds, scales, and longer-length devices are often required when surgery or other procedures are performed on very obese individuals," said MRG senior analyst Lexie Code in a statement.
There are currently more than 11 million obese people nationwide, a number that is expected to grow by 3% per year to bring the number to 13 million by 2010. The U.S. bariatric equipment market will generate more than $1 billion in annual revenues by 2010, according to an MRG release.
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