Reuters, April 24, 2007 Obese individuals appear more likely to file workers' compensation claims for injuries on the job. According to a report in the April 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. A second report in the same issue suggests that older Americans with a body mass index (BMI) of between 25 and 30-considered to be overweight-may have a higher risk of disability but a lower risk of death than those with BMI in the recommended range of 18.5 to 25. In the second study, Soham Al Snih, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, and colleagues studied 12,725 adults 65 years or older who were not disabled at the beginning of the study. At initial interviews, which occurred between 1982 and 1993, researchers gathered information about health conditions, demographic information and psychosocial characteristics. Blood pressure, height and weight, and physical function were also measured. Follow-up interviews, in person or by phone, were conducted annually for seven years.   (This story appeared widely in national and international print and electronic news.)