Midlife obesity linked to heightened frailty risk in olderage BMJ_Open
Carrying too much weight—including a midriff bulge—from midlife onwards is linked to a heightened risk of physical frailty in older age, finds research published in the open access journalFrailty is often wrongly perceived as a purely wasting disorder, say the researchers, who emphasize the importance of keeping trim throughout adulthood to help minimize the risk.
The researchers therefore drew on participants in the population-based Tromsø Study to investigate whether general and abdominal obesity, separately and jointly, might affect the risk of pre-frailty/frailty. While participants in both the strong and pre-frail/frail groups put on weight and expanded their waistlines during the monitoring period, there were higher proportions of participants with normal BMIs and waistlines at the start of the monitoring period in the strong group.
Similarly, those with a moderately high or high waist circumference, to start off with, were respectively 57% and twice as likely to be pre-frail or frail than those with a normal waistline.
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