Londrina State University

Obese experience poor muscle performance, high metabolic use, and constant physical fatigue

Published in Lab Business Week, January 1st, 2006

Gait cinematic analysis in morbidly obese patients indicates poor skeletal muscle performance, high metabolic expenditure, and constant physical exhaustion.

According to a study from Brazil, "Functional comorbidities of excess body weight such as gait problems are never life-threatening like those associated with certain metabolic sequelae. Nevertheless, they may interfere with quality of life and also act as a mirror of muscle, bone, and joint stress."

S.A.F. de Souza and colleagues at Londrina State University conducted a prospective study "to document dynamic aspects of gait in severely obese subjects. An outpatient population (age...

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Source: Lab Business Week (2006-01-01)

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