Asthma, Author Interviews, Pediatrics, Weight Research / 06.09.2016
Overweight Girls, Underweight Boys May Be At Greater Risk of Adult Asthma
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Professor Charlotte Suppli Ulrik MD DMSc et al.
Dept. of Respiratory Medicine
Hvidovre Hospital
Copenhagen, Denmark
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Obesity is a risk factor for new-onset asthma, but the association is incompletely understood. Our aim was, therefore, to investigate the association between body mass index (BMI) BMI in childhood and asthma admissions in early adulthood (until age 45 years).
We used data on BMI measured annually (age 7-13 years) in 321,830 children enrolled in the Copenhagen School Health Records Registry. During the 36-years of follow-up, a total of 2,059 first-time ever hospital admissions for asthma were observed.
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