ArticleThe Journal of allergy and clinical immunology2009
Body mass index and asthma incidence in the Black Women's Health Study.
Article in The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The association between body mass index, abdominal fatness, and weight change and the risk of adult asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- Validation of a Colorectal Cancer Risk Prediction Model in US Black Women.Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2026Article
- Global, regional, and national burden of chronic respiratory diseases,1990-2021 and predictions to 2035: analysis of data from the global burden of disease study 2021.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- Obesity and weight change during eight years in relation to asthma incidence.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Effects of Obesity in Asthma.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2019Review
- Factors associated with asthma control: MOSAR study (Multicenter Observational Study of Asthma in Rabat-Morocco).BMC pulmonary medicine · 2018Observational
- Neighborhood and Individual Socioeconomic Status and Asthma Incidence in African American Women.Ethnicity & disease · 2016Article
- Interacting effects of obesity, race, ethnicity and sex on the incidence and control of adult-onset asthma.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2016Article
- Obesity--a risk factor for asthma, but not for atopic dermatitis, allergic rhinitis and sensitization.Public health nutrition · 2015Article
- Depressive symptoms and the incidence of adult-onset asthma in African American women.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2014Article
- Experiences of racism and the incidence of adult-onset asthma in the Black Women's Health Study.Chest · 2014Article
- Obesity, metabolic dysregulation and oxidative stress in asthma.Biochimica et biophysica acta · 2011Review
- Associations of asthma with body mass index and adult weight change among reproductive age women.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2011Article
- Advances in adult asthma diagnosis and treatment in 2009.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2010Review
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundEvidence from prospective studies consistently links obesity to asthma onset in white women, although there is controversy as to whether the association is causal. There are few data on this topic in black women, among whom the prevalence of obesity and asthma is high.
objectiveWe prospectively assessed the relation of body mass index (BMI) to asthma incidence in the Black Women's Health Study.
methodsWe followed 46,435 women from 1995 through 2005 with biennial mailed questionnaires. Cox regression models were used to estimate incidence rate ratios and 95% CIs.
resultsDuring 403,394 person-years of follow-up, 1068 participants reported physician-diagnosed asthma and concurrent use of asthma medication. Compared with women with BMIs of 20 to 24, the multivariate incidence rate ratios for higher categories of BMI increased from 1.26 (95% CI, 1.05-1.51) for BMIs of 25 to 29 to 2.85 (95% CI, 2.19-3.72) for BMIs of 40 or greater, with a significant trend. The association of BMI with asthma risk was consistent across strata of smoking status, age, presence of sleep apnea, parental history of asthma, BMI at age 18 years, and energy expenditure and intake.
conclusionIn this large cohort of African American women, there was a positive association between BMI and asthma risk that was similar in magnitude to those observed in longitudinal studies of white women.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.