Being overweight or obese does not make asthma worse in patients with mild and moderate forms of the disease, according to a study by National Jewish Health researchers, although it may reduce the response to medications.
Previous studies have suggested that obesity predisposes people to developing asthma, to suffer more severe asthma symptoms, and to respond […]

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Almost one in six boys weighs more than four kilograms at birth due to a sharp drop in the number of women smoking during pregnancy and a rise in maternal age and cases of gestational diabetes. But experts fear the trend could lead to a generation of children whose life expectancies plunge as they battle […]

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A new research at National Jewish Health in Denver shows that the inhaled steroids that are often used to treat asthma don’t work as well in the overweight or obese.
According to study conclusion, the combination of obesity and asthma appears to do something to limit the pathways by which steroids reduce inflammation. In fact, the […]

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A new study says that boys may be more likely to have childhood asthma than girls, but they are also more likely to grow out of it.
The report, published in the second August issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, found that boys also have fewer asthma occurrences in the post-pubertal […]

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A new research from Quebec, Canada suggests that people who are obese with asthma may carry a specific trait that causes them to have poorer asthma control than their slim counterparts.
In the study, researchers  compared pulmonary function changes, methacholine challenge scores, sputum induction cell counts, symptom perceptions, BMI/waist circumference, and waist-to-hip ratio of 44 obese […]

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People who are obese with asthma may carry a specific trait that causes them to have poorer asthma control than their slim counterparts, suggests a new research.
Compared with those who were not obese, those who were obese had poorer asthma control, as well as lower total lung capacity, expiratory reserve volume, functional residual capacity, and […]

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According to researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand, obesity can severely worsen the impact of asthma. What’s more, it may also mask its severity in standard tests.
This is the first study that reveals a significant comparative difference in how the airways and lungs respond to a simulated asthma attack in obese and […]

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A new study at the Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta shows that obese adults tend to suffer more severe asthma symptoms than their normal-weight counterparts.
The investigators report the results in the medical journal Thorax and suggest that weight control should be a fundamental part of asthma management.

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A study at Emory University School of Medicine concluded children with asthma - but not those without asthma - were affected by living in homes in areas with heavy traffic. These children who are exposed to traffic pollution are at increased risk for respiratory problems and reduced lung volumes.

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A study at the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine, has found that medications designed to interfere with the mechanism of severe respiratory infection could potentially prevent many cases of childhood asthma.
The main conclusion of this study is that blocking severe viral infections may prevent asthma in kids.

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