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Variable
UK Data Service variable record for:
Health Survey for England, 2016
Variable Details
| Variable | WMSur | |||||||||||||||
| Label | Ever had surgery to manage or change weight (such as a gastric band, gastric bypass or gastric balloon) | |||||||||||||||
| Question text | Have you ever had surgery such as a gastric band, gastric bypass or gastric balloon to help you manage or change your weight? | |||||||||||||||
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| Disclaimer | Please note that these frequencies are not weighted. | |||||||||||||||
| Location | Health Survey for England, 2016 | |||||||||||||||
| Interviewer Instructions | NURSE IF NEEDED: A gastric band is a band that can be surgically fitted to the top of your stomach to make you feel full after eating a small amount of food, which will help with weight loss. A gastric bypass involves re-routing your digestive system past most of your stomach, so you digest less food so it takes less to make you feel full. A gastric balloon is a non-surgical procedure where a small balloon is inserted into the stomach through the mouth. The balloon is then filled with a sterile saline solution to reduce the available capacity of the stomach for food. | |||||||||||||||
| Universe | Location of units of observation: National;Population: Adults (aged 16 and over) and children (aged 0-15 years) in the general population, living in private households in England during 2016. | |||||||||||||||
| Sampling | Multi-stage stratified random sample | |||||||||||||||
| Study Type | Repeated cross-sectional study The survey is conducted annually. |
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