People in northern Sydney are likely to live longer than those in any other area in NSW, research shows.
The reported median age at death in northern Sydney was 85 between 2010 and 2014, compared to 79 in the Nepean Blue Mountains area, western Sydney and southwestern Sydney, according to the Social Health Atlas.
The data revealed central and eastern Sydney had the most diagnoses of high blood pressure in 2014 and 2015 for people aged over 18 and the highest number of overweight people in the same period but the Hunter and Central Coast recorded the highest number of obese people.
Diabetes in people aged over 18 was most prominent in Sydney's central and eastern suburbs with 64,107 reported diagnoses in 2011 and 2012, with the least number (9683) reported in the Murrumbidgee local government area in the Riverina.
The Hunter and Central Coast area recorded the highest number of cancer diagnoses between 2006 and 2010 (37,551) while the Murrumbidgee had the least number of cancer diagnoses with 7177 reported in the same period.
The state's Hunter and Central Coast reported the most diagnoses of circulatory system diseases in people aged two years and over, asthma cases in people all ages, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases in all ages, musculoskeletal system diseases in all ages and arthritis in all ages in 2011 and 2012.
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