MORE FLAB. HUGE JAB
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 20:40 
click on photo to enlargeDoctors need longer needles for fat patients
DOCTORS will need longer needles to inject medicine because patients' bottoms are getting fatter, it was claimed yesterday.
And the problem is worse with women -who have "larger, more fatty bottoms".
A study found increasing obesity meant drugs were not being properly administered in a large number of cases.
In the study, reported in the British Medical Journal, Dr Andrew Nisbet said: "Standard green and blue needles do not reach the gluteal muscles in a considerable number of patients."
Dr Nisbet, the senior anaesthetics house officer at Jersey General Hospital, studied pelvic X-rays of 100 patients.
He said: "In a population that is increasingly overweight, factors could become more exaggerated, leading overall to less effective injections. Link
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