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A new study has suggested that obese older adults may be more likely than their thinner peers to suffer a potentially disabling fall. The study, however, suggested that the most severely obese may be somewhat protected from injury.
“People who are obese may have a harder time with balance,” said Christine L. Himes, of Syracuse University in New York and one of the researchers on the new study. “It’s just harder for obese people to recover from injury,” Himes said. “They’re going to be in poorer physical shape to begin with.” “This is just another reason that obesity needs to considered an important public health problem,” Himes noted.
