Observational studyPediatric pulmonology2016
Sex differences in the association between neck circumference and asthma.
Observational study in Pediatric pulmonology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Asthma interactions between obesity and other risk factors.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2022Review
- Asthma and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Overlap: What Has the Evidence Taught Us?American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2020Review
- Pediatric obesity-related asthma: A prototype of pediatric severe non-T2 asthma.Pediatric pulmonology · 2020Article
- Association of pediatric obesity and asthma, pulmonary physiology, metabolic dysregulation, and atopy; and the role of weight management.Expert review of endocrinology & metabolism · 2019Review
- Genome-wide analysis revealed sex-specific gene expression in asthmatics.Human molecular genetics · 2019Article
- Obesity and asthma.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2018Review
- BMI at school age and incident asthma admissions in early adulthood: a prospective study of 310,211 children.Clinical epidemiology · 2018Article
- Neck Circumference Percentiles of Iranian Children and Adolescents: The Weight Disorders Survey of CASPIAN IV Study.International journal of endocrinology and metabolism · 2017Article
- Pediatric pulmonology year in review 2016: Part 2.Pediatric pulmonology · 2017Review
- The effect of obesity, weight gain, and weight loss on asthma inception and control.Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology · 2017Review
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Abstract
introductionThe association between obesity and asthma control/quality of life commonly relies on body mass index (BMI) as the anthropomorphic measure. Due to limitations of BMI and the existence of alternative measures, such as neck circumference (NC), we examined the association between NC and asthma control/quality of life, with particular attention to male-female differences. MATERIALS AND
methodsThe AsthMaP-2 Project is an observational study of youth with physician-diagnosed asthma. NC was stratified according to age- and sex-specific cutoffs and associated with asthma control (via Asthma Control Test [ACT]) and quality of life (via Integrated Therapeutics Group [ITG]-Asthma Short Form).
resultsThe mean ± SD age was 11.9 ± 3.6 years, and 53% were male (N = 116). The mean BMI percentile was at the 71 ± 28 percentile. Thirty-one participants (27%) met criteria for high NC. Males with high NC had significantly worse asthma control (P = 0.02) and lower quality of life than those with low NC. No similar association was found for females and the proportion of variability in ACT and ITG was best explained by BMI percentile. Conversely, for males, the proportion of variability in these scores explained by NC was larger than BMI percentile alone (Cohen's f(2) = 0.04-0.09, a small to medium effect size). DISCUSSION: Among male youth with asthma, combined use of NC and BMI percentile explained asthma control and quality of life better than BMI alone. Future studies of asthma should include measurement of NC and other anthropogenic measures of regional adiposity to clarify sex differences in asthma. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2016; 51:893-900. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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