[Jog] Re: Obesity Among Older Americans

[Jennifer L YOUNG]

Please pardon the cross-posting.

Below is a notice of a new data report by the Center on An Aging Society,
Georgetown University regarding the topic of obesity in older populations.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Moskowitz [mailto:jmm at UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU] 
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 5:58 PM
To: PRC_OBESITY_NETWORK-L at LIST.UNM.EDU 
Subject: Obesity Among Older Americans


Compliments of ...

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   Center for Family and Community Health
           School of Public Health
      University of California, Berkeley
   http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~sph/CFCH/ 
  A CDC Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
        and Health Promotion Research
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Obesity Among Older Americans

Data Profile, Number 10, July 2003
Center on An Aging Society, Georgetown University

Section Headings:

1) At risk for chronic conditions
2) Obesity rates for older adults may be even higher in the future
3) Some groups are more likely to be obese
4) Disability rates are higher among adults who are obese
5) Symptoms of illness are more common among obese adults
6) Symptoms of depression can accompany obesity
7) Obesity can affect lifestyle
8) Obesity is related to chronic conditions
9) Obese adults exercise less

Unless otherwise noted, the data presented in this Profile are from two
national surveys of the United States civilian non-institutionalized
population. The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), which is conducted
annually by the National Center for Health Statistics, is the principal
source of information on the health of the U.S. population. The 2000 Health
and Retirement Study (HRS) provides information on the community-dwelling
population 51 and older. The HRS data set is sponsored by the National
Institute on Aging and conducted by the Institute for Social Research at the
University of Michigan.

The above report is available in HTML and PDF versions at
http://ihcrp.georgetown.edu/agingsociety/pubhtml/obesity2/obesity2.html 
http://ihcrp.georgetown.edu/agingsociety/pdfs/obesity2.pdf 

For other Data Profiles see
http://ihcrp.georgetown.edu/agingsociety/profiles.html