According to lead researcher Dr. Denise Houston, an assistant professor of gerontology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, people who are overweight or obese in young adulthood and middle-age are at an increased risk of being disabled in their later years.
In her study, of more than 2,800 U.S. adults in their 70s, Dr Houston found that those who were overweight or obese at any point in adulthood had an increased risk of developing problems with walking and climbing stairs.
What's more, the longer a person had been overweight, the greater his or her risk of mobility limitations, the researchers report in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Dr Houston's findings highlight the importance of preventing excessive weight gain early in life.
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