Washington, Nov 7: A recent health study has found that older, obese adults are more likely to suffer disability in present times than a decade ago.

The study was conducted at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and involved 9,928 people age 60 years.

The study revealed that obesity, which had become more common among older people today, was having an increasingly profound impact on their day-to-day activities and overall health.

The recent research has challenged the earlier studies that say that obese populations had actually become healthier since the 1960s. While other obesity-related risk factors – such as high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol – had declined.

Washington, Nov 7 : A recent study for the first time has found a link between asthma and depressive disorders by finding that young people with the respiratory condition are about twice as likely to suffer from depression and anxiety disorders than kids without asthma.

The study was conducted at the University Of Washington School Of Medicine, Group Health Cooperative, and Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute. It involved more than 1,300 kids between the ages of 11 to 17. Of the participants, 781 had been diagnosed with or treated for asthma, and the rest were randomly selected youths with no history of asthma.

Researchers have revealed that sound sleep during night lessens a child’s risk of becoming obese.

The study outcomes from the University of Michigan C S Mott Children’s Hospital recommended that lack of sleep, fewer than 9 hours a day, causes kids, aged between 6 to 12 years, to turn obese, irrespective of their sexual category, race, socioeconomic status, or home environment quality.

Lead researcher, Julie Lumeng, MD, assistant research scientist at the U-M Center for Human Growth and Development, said, “Many children aren’t getting enough sleep, and that lack of sleep may not only be making them moody or preventing them from being alert and ready to learn at school, it may also be leading to a higher risk of being overweight.”

Washington, Nov 7 : A NYU School of Medicine study has found that people whose mothers suffer from Alzheimer’s disease might be at higher risk for developing the disease than those individuals whos

A new research has discovered that the medical professionals would be against the limits on the employment chances of abroad doctors and medical students.