TY - JOUR
T1 - Weight Loss and Physical Activity for Disease Prevention in Obese Older Adults
T2 - an Important Role for Lifestyle Management
AU - Valencia, Willy Marcos
AU - Stoutenberg, Mark
AU - Florez, Hermes
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Dr. Maria van Zuilen for her review of this manuscript. The work contributed by Dr. Mark Stoutenberg was supported by Grant Number 1KL2TR000461 from the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the author and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
Funding Information:
We would also like to thank the Department of Human and Health Services, which supported our grant NIH grant 1R18AE000049-01, “Peer-lead and Telehealth Activated Care (PACT) in Diabetes Prevention and Management.”
Funding Information:
We would like to thank the Health Foundation of South Florida and its Healthy Aging Regional Collaborative, which supported the grant that allowed us to implement the Enhance Fitness exercise program at Miami VAHS.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York (outside the USA).
PY - 2014/9/12
Y1 - 2014/9/12
N2 - Weight loss in older adults has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. An obesity paradox has been previously described and the issue of weight status on health outcomes remains a highly debated topic. However, there is little doubt that physical activity (PA) has a myriad of benefits in older adults, especially in obese individuals who are inactive and have a poor cardiometabolic profile. In this review, we offer a critical view to clarify misunderstandings regarding the obesity paradox, particularly as it relates to obese older adults. We also review the evidence on PA and lifestyle interventions for the improvement of cardiorespiratory fitness, which can prevent disease and provide benefits to obese older adults, independent of weight changes.
AB - Weight loss in older adults has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. An obesity paradox has been previously described and the issue of weight status on health outcomes remains a highly debated topic. However, there is little doubt that physical activity (PA) has a myriad of benefits in older adults, especially in obese individuals who are inactive and have a poor cardiometabolic profile. In this review, we offer a critical view to clarify misunderstandings regarding the obesity paradox, particularly as it relates to obese older adults. We also review the evidence on PA and lifestyle interventions for the improvement of cardiorespiratory fitness, which can prevent disease and provide benefits to obese older adults, independent of weight changes.
KW - Cardiorespiratory fitness
KW - Diabetes
KW - Disease prevention
KW - Intentional weight loss
KW - Lifestyle interventions
KW - Obese older adult
KW - Obesity paradox
KW - Physical activity
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U2 - 10.1007/s11892-014-0539-4
DO - 10.1007/s11892-014-0539-4
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25183491
AN - SCOPUS:84906722201
VL - 14
JO - Current Diabetes Reports
JF - Current Diabetes Reports
SN - 1534-4827
IS - 10
M1 - 539
ER -