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Relationship Between Obesity and Asthma Control in Children Aged 4–18 years

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Abstract

Objective

To analyze the relationship between obesity and asthma control in a group of patients with asthma.

Methods

In this prospective study, body mass index (BMI) values of 200 asthma patients aged 4–18 y who had been regularly followed up by Kartal Education and Research Hospital Pediatric Asthma Outpatient Clinic were calculated. Asthma control test (ACT) and asthma control questionnaire (ACQ) were performed. The degrees of asthma control were evaluated with regard to BMI values in consideration of the data obtained.

Results

The lowest and the highest BMI values were 12.4 and 30.0 kg/m2, respectively (mean 18.1 ± 2.9). Of the total 200 children, 110 were boys and 90 were girls. It was found that 17 % of the patients were overweight and 16 % obese. ACT results showed that 72 patients had controlled asthma, 102 patients had partially controlled asthma and 26 patients had uncontrolled asthma. According to ACQ results, 165 patients had controlled asthma, 17 patients had partially controlled asthma and 18 patients had uncontrolled asthma.

Conclusions

Thus, it was found that there was no statistically significant difference between asthma control degrees of obese and non-obese patients. In other words, obesity did not affect the asthma control level.

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AYand BK: Designed the study, collected the data, wrote the paper and approved the final manuscript; YA and BK: Gave critical inputs to the paper, and approved the final manuscript; MK and BY: Helped in designing the study, analyzed the data, drafted the paper, and approved the final manuscript; MK: Analyzed and interpreted the data and approved the final manuscript. BK and YA will act as guarantor for the paper.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Education and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey

    Adem Yaşar & Mehmet Karacı

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Lütfi Kırdar Kartal Education and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey

    Yasemin Akın & Belma Yaşar

  3. Department of Pediatric Chest Diseases, Marmara University Pendik Education and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey

    Bülent Karadağ

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Yaşar, A., Akın, Y., Karadağ, B. et al. Relationship Between Obesity and Asthma Control in Children Aged 4–18 years. Indian J Pediatr 83, 505–509 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-015-1964-3

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