Cholesterol

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many diagnoses of high cholesterol there were in England in each year since 1997-98; and how many such diagnoses were made in those under the age of 18 years. (131913)

The information requested is shown in the following table.

*All diagnosis count of finished consultant episodes and patients for high cholesterol—national health service hospitals, England 1997-98 to 2005-06*
	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01
Age group	Finished consultant episodes	Patient counts	Finished consultant episodes	Patient counts	Finished consultant episodes	Patient counts	Finished consultant episodes	Patient counts
Aged under 18	167	121	200	167	244	198	298	209
Aged 18 and above	53,537	39,373	72,748	53,420	94,622	67,977	132,880	91,718
Age not known	226	153	35	32	42	40	257	133
Total	53,930	39,647	72,983	53,619	94,907	68,215	133,436	92,060

*2001-022002-032003-042004-05*
Age group	Finished consultant episodes	Patient counts	Finished consultant episodes	Patient counts	Finished consultant episodes	Patient counts	Finished consultant episodes	Patient counts
Aged under 18	344	240	336	270	393	318	558	426
Aged 18 and above	162,655	111,682	200,733	134,702	225,665	155,308	288,424	195,375
Age not known	202	200	141	139	87	87	70	70
Total	163,201	112,122	201,211	135,111	226,145	155,713	289,052	195,871

*2005-06*
Age group	Finished consultant episodes	Patient counts
Aged under 18	656	507
Aged 18 and above	363,156	241,424
Age not known	58	58
Total	363,870	241,989

Volume 459: debated on Wednesday 2 May 2007