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| The impact of obesity on active life expectancy in older American men and women | | Author(s) | Sandra L Reynolds, Yasuhiko Saito, Eileen M Crimmins |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 45, no 4, August 2005 |
| Pages | pp 438-444 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Obesity ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Life expectancy tables ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Using data from the first three waves of the US Asset and Health Dynamics Amongst the Oldest Old (AHEAD) survey, this article develops estimates of total, active and disabled life expectancy of obese and non-obese men and women. The Interpolation of Markov Chains (MoCh) method was used to estimate the average number of years obese and non-obese older people can expect to live with and without daily living (ADL) disability. The findings indicate that obesity has little effect on life expectancy in adults aged 70+. However, the obese are more likely to become disabled. This means that obese older people live both more years and a higher proportion of their remaining lives disabled. The lack of significant differences in life expectancy by obesity status among the old suggests that obesity-related death is less of a concern than disability in this age range. Given steady increases in obesity in Americans of all ages, future disability rates may be higher than anticipated among older US citizens. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070904212 A |
| Classmark | CSA: C4: CA: S7: 3J: 7T |
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