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Losing Weight Can Control Asthma in Obese Patients
MD Magazine Researchers from The Ottawa Hospital in Canada studied 22 obese, asthmatic participants aged 18 to 75 years in order to examine whether or not weight reduction would reduce asthma in the study cohort. The researchers noted that the link between asthma … |
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In kids, young adults with asthma, pay attention to weight gain
Washington University in St. Louis News Robert Strunk, MD, examines LeBron Reed, a patient with asthma. Strunk, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, led a study showing the importance of children with asthma maintaining healthy weight as they grow into young adults. |
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Losing Weight May Ease Asthma in Obese People
U.S. News & World Report People who are obese are about 1.5 times more likely to have asthma than those who aren't obese. A 3-unit increase in body mass index — BMI, an estimate of body fat based on weight and height — is associated with a 35 percent increase in the risk of … Losing Weight Key in Improving Asthma in Obese Patients |
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Weight loss reduces asthma severity in obese adults, finds study
News-Medical.net A Canadian study published in the June issue of the journal CHEST found weight loss reduced asthma severity as measured by airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) in obese adults. The incidence of asthma is 1.47 times higher in obese people than … Weight loss can reduce asthma severity in obese adults |
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Weight loss in obese adults can reduce severity of asthma
Science Codex A Canadian study published in the June issue of the journal CHEST found weight loss reduced asthma severity as measured by airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) in obese adults. The incidence of asthma is 1.47 times higher in obese people than … |
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Public Release: 8-Jun-2015 Study finds weight loss in obese adults can reduce …
EurekAlert (press release) Glenview, Ill. (June 8, 2015)– A Canadian study published in the June issue of the journal CHEST found weight loss reduced asthma severity as measured by airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) in obese adults. The incidence of asthma is 1.47 times higher in … |
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Asthma and clean air on school buses; weight and Type 2 diabetes
The Denver Post A recent study from the University of Michigan and the University of Washington estimates that once all of our school buses are brought up to the EPA standards, nationally kids would miss 14 million fewer days of school a year because of asthma and … |
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Weight Loss Surgery Can Help In Joint Replacement And Asthma
Health Aim Earlier, it was detected that weight loss surgery can help in preventing the growth of type 2 diabetes, heart diseases and cancer. Recent studies have also found that weight loss surgery can help patients with joint replacement and asthma, as published … |
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Weight Loss Surgery Eases Asthma: Study
Newsmax The study, published online in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, is the first to find that significant weight reduction can reduce serious asthma-associated events and the latest example of health benefits from the procedure that extend … Weight loss improves asthma severity in obese patients Bariatric surgery appears to cut risks for serious asthma-related events Not just weight loss, bariatric surgery can reduce asthma risk too! |
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Effects of weight loss on airway responsiveness in obese asthmatics: Does weight loss lead to reversibility of asthma?
Chest. 2015 Mar 12;
Authors: Pakhale S, Baron J, Dent R, Vandemheen K, Aaron SD
Abstract
Background: Growing epidemics of obesity and asthma are major public health concerns. Despite that asthma-obesity links are widely studied, the effects of weight loss on asthma severity measured by airway hyper-responsiveness (AHR) have received limited attention. Our main study objective was to examine whether weight reduction reduces asthma severity in adult obese-asthmatics.
Methods: In a prospective controlled parallel group study, we followed 22 obese-asthmatic subjects aged 18-75 years, with a body mass index (BMI) >32.5kg/m2 and airway hyper-responsiveness (PC20<16mg/mL of methacholine). Sixteen subjects followed a behavioural weight reduction program for 3 months and 6 subjects were controls. The primary outcome was change in AHR over 3 months. Changes in lung function, asthma control and quality of life were secondary outcomes.
Results: At study entry, subjects’ mean age was 44 years (SD±9), 95% were females with mean BMI of 45.7kg/m2 (SD±9.2). After 3 months, mean weight loss was 16.5kg (SD± 9.9) in the weight loss group but controls had a mean weight gain of 0.6kg (SD±2.6). There were significant improvements in PC20 to methacholine (p=0.009), FEV1 (p=0.009), FVC (p=0.010), asthma-control (p<0.001) and asthma quality of life (p=0.003) in the intervention group whilst these parameters remained unchanged in the control group. Physical activity levels also increased significantly in the intervention group but not in the controls.
Conclusion: Weight loss in obese-asthmatics can improve asthma severity and result in improvements in AHR, asthma control, lung function, and quality of life. These findings support the need to actively pursue healthy weight loss measures in obese-asthmatics.
PMID: 25763936 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]
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