A new study, conducted by Finnish researchers, has found that people who are overweight or obese in middle age are more likely to be frail in later life.

During the study of more than 1,000 men, lead author Dr Timo Strandberg and colleagues found that those who put on weight in their 40s had the highest risk of death and illness
but lost it when they got older.

It is believed that the heart risk associated with middle-aged spread puts men at risk of 'frailty' even if they have no obvious illness.For the study, the researchers followed the men from age 25 through to their 70s.

They found that those who put on weight in their 40s had a worse prognosis in middle age than those who stayed a normal weight.

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Doctors who gave diabetics, a drug originally intended to lower patients' cholesterol found it reduced their risk of so-called minor amputation by 36 per cent, a new analysis of research says.

Researchers in Australia, Finland and New Zealand studied almost 10,000 patients aged 50 to 75 with type 2 diabetes, the kind linked to obesity. About half of the patients were given fenofibrate, a drug available generically and sold as Antara, Fenoglide, Lipofen and others. The other half got fake pills. After five years, 115 patients had at least one lower limb amputation because of diabetes.

Diabetes can damage nerves and blood vessels. In severe cases, this leads to amputation. About one diabetes patient in 10 loses part of a leg.

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