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More than one million NHS prescription items were dispensed to treat obesity in England in 2006 - eight times the number dispensed in 1999. The number of items dispensed in primary care was 1.06 million in 2006, compared to 127,000 in 1999, a report for The Information Centre for health and social care (The IC) shows today (31 January 2008). The majority of these were for two drugs; Sibutramine and Orlistat.

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