Ageing and Healthcare Today: conference report

Obesity in the ageing patient  Dr David H Haslam, GP and a physician specialising in obesity medicine at the Centre for Obesity research at Luton & Dunstable Hospital Over the past decade, the prevalence of obesity in Western and Westernising countries has more than doubled.1 BMI data has been evaluated as part of an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease. Prevalence rates for overweight and obese people are very different in each region with the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe and North America having higher prevalence rates. Obesity is usually now associated with poverty even in developing countries.