Yahoo! News - Fat Americans overwhelm imaging machines:
"It (the study) was based on a review of 15 years of radiologic exams at the Boston hospital that had been labelled as being of limited use because of body size.
The percentage of such reports nearly doubled over the period, the researchers said, and corresponded to increases in obesity in the United States. Over the 15 years, obesity increased in Massachusetts from 9 percent of the population to 16 percent.
The biggest problems were with abdominal ultrasound followed by chest X-ray and abdominal computed tomography, the report said."
2 comments:
The comics guys didn't see that one coming, did they?
I knew that Santa Claus diet was more than just a fad.
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