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Could Obesity be Linked to Falls in Older Adults?

An increase in life expectancy has led to the rapid growth in older population globally, resulting in an increase in age-associated diseases and disability. This place increasing pressure on societies as well as the healthcare systems. To add to this issue, increasingly sedentary lifestyles and the accessibility to cheap, highly calorific foods, has also led to an obesity epidemic globally. The increased prevalence of obesity in the older adult population is now considered a major public health problem. However, obesity in older adults are often underestimated due to the uncertainty of benefits over the risk of weight reduction programmed in older adults. Generally, it is widely accepted that obesity is often associated with multiple health conditions including type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, sleep apnoea, hypercholesteremia, cancer [1,2] as well as several age-associated diseases such as osteoarthritis, dementia and cognitive impairment [3]. Additionally, some studies suggest that obesity may have an impact on falls in older adults, however, this relationship is not adequately established. At least one in five older adults aged 65 years and above fall each year and falls has been identified as the second leading cause of unintentional deaths among older adults [4,5].