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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Obesity Volume 2012, Article ID 894894, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2012/894894 Research Article Comparing Years of Healthy Life, Measured in 16 Ways, for Normal Weight and Overweight Older Adults Paula Diehr,1, 2 Stephen Thielke,3, 4 Ellen O’Meara,5 Annette L. Fitzpatrick,6 and Anne Newman7 1 Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 2 Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 3 Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 4 Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Puget Sound VA Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 5 Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 6 Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 7 Department of Epidemiology and Center for Aging and Population Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Paula Diehr, pdiehr@ Received 14 November 2011; Revised 17 February 2012; Accepted 7 March 2012 Academic Editor: Francisco Lopez-Jimenez Copyright © 2012 Paula Diehr et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction. The traditional definitions of overweight and obesity are not age specific, even though the relationship of weight to mortality is different for older adults. Effects of adiposity on aspects of health beside mortality have not been well investigated. Methods. We calculated the number of years of healthy life (YHL) in the 10 years after baseline, for 5,747 older adults. YHL was defined