Obesity Today Means Fatal Heart Disease Tomorrow - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today: "People who are obese in middle age are far more likely to be hospitalized and to die of diabetes and heart disease in old age, even if they are currently free of cardiovascular-disease risk factors.
Researchers here who kept tabs on more than 17,000 men and women -- some for nearly 40 years -- found that those who were obese in middle age had twice to quadruple the risk of being hospitalized for coronary heart disease in old age than their normal-weight peers, according to a report in the Jan. 11 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association."