The influence of obesity on falls and quality of life
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Here’s an interesting article published in the February edition of Dynamic Medicine. The authors found a correlation between obesity and increased incidence of falls and stumbling. In fact, 32% of the obese group (BMI of >30 kg/m2) stumbled while walking and 27% had one or more falls versus 14% of the non-obese group (BMI <25 kg/m2) stumbled and 15% had one or more falls.
Ok - that part really isn’t interesting.
What’s interesting is there were no group differences in any of the eight static balance tests.
