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Obese children with asthma need higher corticosteroid doses – Clinical Advisor


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Obese children with asthma need higher corticosteroid doses
Clinical Advisor
HealthDay News — Overweight and obese children with asthma do not respond as well to corticosteroids as normal weight children and require higher daily doses of the medication, study data presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of …
AAAAI: Corticosteroid Response in Asthma Impacted by BMIMD News (press release)
Heavy Kids May Not Respond as Well to Asthma MedsHispanically Speaking News (blog)

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Postop Respiratory Complications in Obese Asthmatic Children – Medscape


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Postop Respiratory Complications in Obese Asthmatic Children
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Obesity and asthma are commonly cited as risk factors for these events, although their joint contribution has not been well studied, said lead investigator Olubukola O. Nafiu, MD, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. …
Obese, Asthmatic Kids Need Special Care Under AnesthesiaU.S. News & World Report
ASA: Obesity Ups Peri-Op Peds Respiratory ComplicationsDoctors Lounge

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Obese Children Have Up to Double the Risk of Having Asthma – Science Daily (press release)

Obese Children Have Up to Double the Risk of Having Asthma
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 14, 2011) — Asthma is considered one of the main causes of school absenteeism and its prevalence has risen in the last decades. Overweight children have been shown to have double the frequency of asthma than that of non-obese …

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Obese Mothers Increase Risk for Asthma in Children, Study Shows (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork – A Swedish study shows that pregnant women who are obese or overweight have an increased risk for giving birth to a baby with asthma. With more than one-third of women obese and asthma the most common childhood illness, this is an alarming link. Here is a by-the-numbers look at obesity in pregnancy, asthma in children and the connections between them.

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Obese Mothers Put Children at Higher Risk of Asthma – Fox News


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Obese Mothers Put Children at Higher Risk of Asthma
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Pregnant women who are obese put their children at higher risk of developing asthma compared to mothers of normal weight, a large study in Sweden has found. The study, which covered over 129000 mothers in Stockholm and their 189000 children, …
Obese moms put children at higher risk of asthmaKAVU
News You Can Use | Putting the unborn at risk of asthmaLivemint

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Obese mothers put children at higher risk of asthma – Reuters

Obese mothers put children at higher risk of asthma
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Pregnant women who are obese put their children at higher risk of developing asthma compared to mothers of normal weight, a large study in Sweden has found. The study, which covered over 129000 mothers in Stockholm …
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