Research carried out at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England has discovered that obesity in later life does not make a substantial difference to risks of death among older people but that it is a major contributor to increased disability in later life creating a ticking time bomb for health services in developed countries.
The research is published in the August 2008 edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
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