A recent study found that both abdominal and general obesity were independently associated with respiratory illnesses, including asthma and self-reported COPD.
, MD, PhD, of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Uppsala, Sweden, and colleagues write., the researchers report on a cross-sectional investigation of responses to a questionnaire similar to one utilized 10 years earlier in the RHINE II study. Questions required simple yes/no responses that covered asthma, respiratory symptoms,, chronic bronchitis, and COPD.
Simple linear regression revealed that BMI and WC were highly correlated, and both were associated with tested respiratory conditions when adjusted for confounding variables. Differences with respect to WC and BMI were independently associated with most of the examined respiratory conditions when WC was adjusted for BMI and vice versa. Neither early onset asthma nor allergic rhinitis were associated with WC, BMI, or abdominal or general obesity.
Adjusting for abdominal obesity, general obesity showed an independent and significant association with respiratory symptoms, asthma, adult-onset asthma, and COPD. An analysis stratified by sex indicated a significant association of abdominal and general obesity with asthma in women presented as an odds ratio of 1.56 and 1.95 , respectively, compared with men, with an OR of 1.22 and 1.28 , respectively.
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