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Losing weight and improving fitness may ward off some of the mobility problems that older overweight people with type 2 diabetes often face, according to a new study.
The lifestyle changes helped mobile people stay that way and eased severe mobility problems in others, at least over the short term.
Lead author W. Jack Rejeski from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, said the trends show the importance of encouraging people to get their weight down and exercise sooner, rather than waiting until they develop problems getting around.
In the new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers calculated that a one-percent drop in weight cut the risk of mobility problems by more than seven percent, and the same increase in fitness level lowered mobility risks by between one and two percent.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/28/us-weightloss-idUSBRE82R1IA20120328
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Losing weight and improving fitness may ward off some of the mobility problems that older overweight people with type 2 diabetes often face, according to a new study.
The lifestyle changes helped mobile people stay that way and eased severe mobility problems in others, at least over the short term.
Lead author W. Jack Rejeski from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, said the trends show the importance of encouraging people to get their weight down and exercise sooner, rather than waiting until they develop problems getting around.
In the new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers calculated that a one-percent drop in weight cut the risk of mobility problems by more than seven percent, and the same increase in fitness level lowered mobility risks by between one and two percent.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/28/us-weightloss-idUSBRE82R1IA20120328
*NSS = No s**t, Sherlock!