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SPORTS MEDICINE :
MEDICAL CONDITIONS: OBESITY :
MEDICAL DISEASES: ASTHMA:
Children with Asthma may be at Higher Obesity Risk
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Children with asthma may be at higher obesity risk
AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY
JOURNAL
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
FUNDER
Southern California Environmental Sciences Center, NIH/National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences, Hastings Foundation
KEYWORDS
MEDICINE / HEALTH PEDIATRICS PULMONARY / RESPIRATORY MEDICINE
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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/ats-cwa011717.php
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PUBLIC RELEASE: 20-JAN-2017
AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY
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Jan. 20, 2017--Children with asthma may be more likely to become obese
later in childhood or in adolescence, according to new research published
online ahead of print in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal
of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
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In "Effects of Childhood Asthma on the Development of Obesity among
School-Aged Children," researchers report that young children with asthma
were 51 percent more likely to become obese over the next decade as
children who did not have asthma. The researchers also found that the use
of asthma rescue medications reduced the risk of becoming obese by 43
percent.
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"Asthma and obesity often occur together in children, but it is unclear
whether children with asthma are at higher risk for onset of obesity or
whether obese children develop asthma, or both, said Zhanghua Chen, PhD,
lead study author and a postdoctoral research associate of preventive
medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern
California. "Our findings add to the literature that early-life asthma
history may lead to increased risk of childhood obesity."
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In their prospective study, Dr. Chen and her colleagues analyzed the
records of 2,171 kindergarteners and first graders who were not obese at
the time they enrolled in the Southern California Children's Health Study
(CHS). At enrollment, 13.5 percent of the children had asthma. The
children were followed for up to 10 years (average: 6.9 years). During
that time, 15.8 percent of all the children enrolled in the study
developed obesity. Researchers confirmed study results in a different
group of children, recruited in the 4th grade to participate in the CHS.
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The researchers accounted for a number of factors that might have biased
results, including whether the children had health insurance or were
overweight at enrollment, ethnicity, family income, smoking exposure at
home and physical activity.
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These confounding factors also did not explain the finding that the use of
rescue asthma medications appeared to reduce the risk of developing
obesity.
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Frank D. Gilliland, MD, PhD, senior study author and Hastings Professor of
Preventive Medicine at the university, said the fact that rescue, but not
controller, asthma medications reduced obesity was a surprise and
warranted further study. He added, however, that overall study findings
reinforce the importance of early diagnosis and treatment of asthma, which
may short circuit "the vicious cycle of asthma increasing the development
of obesity and obesity causing increased asthma symptoms."
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Study limitations include relying on parents to report asthma diagnosis,
limited information about exercise and no information about diet. Still,
study findings, the authors said, suggest commonsense strategies for
children with asthma that can improve their overall health while reducing
the risk of obesity. Among those strategies, they said, are eating a
healthy diet, increasing physical activity and achieving asthma control
through medication and better understanding of symptom triggers.
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