Obesity rise linked to disability increase among elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 06:14 in Health & Medicine

Thanks to rising obesity rates in Latin America and the Caribbean, elderly people there are becoming more likely to suffer from disabilities, according to a paper recently published by University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers in the American Journal of Epidemiology...

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