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Some useful facts you may find interesting:

• People with high blood pressure are 3 times more liekly to develop heart disease and stroke.

Source: Blood Pressure Association

• 1 in 3 adults in the UK (16 million) has high blood pressure.

Source: Blood Pressure Association

• 64% of respondents of an Employee Benefits survey cited improving the health and wellbeing of staff as their number one objective in providing healthcare benefits.
  

Source: Employee Benefits Magazine

• 65% of respondents of an Employee Benefits survey believe they are partly reponsible for promoting wellness among their workers.
  

Source: Employee Benefits Magazine

• Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, affecting around 417,000 people in the UK.
  

Source: Alzheimer’s Society

• Epilepsy is covered by the Disability Discrimination Act.
  

Source: Epilepsy Action

• Hip fractures cause more than 1150 premature deaths each month in the UK.
  

Source: National Osteoporosis Society

• The body contains 1kg of calcium, 99 percent of which is stored in our bones.
  

Source: National Osteoporosis Society

• There are an estimated 8,945,000 deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK.
  

Source: RNID

• One in 1,000 children is deaf at three years old.
  

Source: RNID

• 24.6 million working days were lost due to work-related ill health in 2008/09
  

Source: HSE website

• 4.7 million working days were lost due to workplace injury in 2008/09
  

Source: HSE website

• 1 in 5 people in the UK suffer from depression
  

Source: Depression Alliance

• Around 100,000 people in the UK have MS
  

Source: Multiple Sclerosis Society

• If you stop smoking, your risk of heart attached is halved after a year

Source:www.nosmokingday.org.uk

• If you stop smoking, your risk of lung cancer is halved after 10 years

Source:www.nosmokingday.org.uk

You may like to download our stop smoking pdf, for more information.

• Musculoskeletal discorders account for 60 per cent of permanent work
  

Source:The Work Foundation, September 2009

• There are 206 bones in an adult's body

Source:BBC website

• The AXA Group can trace its roots back to the 18th century
  

Source:www.axa.co.uk

• The Group was renamed "AXA"from Mutuelles Unies in1985

Source:www.axa.com

• Obesity has trebled in the last 20 years

Source:We're all in this together, Public Health Commission 2009

• Diet-related ill health costs the NHS £6bn a year

Source:We're all in this together, Public Health Commission 2009

• An overall claims cost for cancer can be in the region of £50,000.

• In 2008 the AXA Group operated in 56 countries.

• AXA PPP healthcare was founded in 1940 as the London Association for Hospital Services (8 years before the NHS!)

• AXA PPP healthcare is a founder member of the Institute of Customer Service