ArticleAnnals of epidemiology2017
Contribution of weight status to asthma prevalence racial disparities, 2-19 year olds, 1988-2014.
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- Obesity in young children and its relationship with diagnosis of asthma, vitamin D deficiency, iron deficiency, specific allergies and flat-footedness: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- The Comorbid Relationship Between Migraine and Asthma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Population-Based Studies.Frontiers in medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Cost-related barriers to medication use among diverse participants with obesity-associated asthma.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2025Article
- Obesity-Associated Non-T2 Mechanisms in Obese Asthmatic Individuals.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Asthma interactions between obesity and other risk factors.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2022Review
- The impact of obesity on immune function in pediatric asthma.Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology · 2021Review
- Asthma and/or hay fever as predictors of fertility/impaired fecundity in U.S. women: National Survey of Family Growth.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Bidirectional association between asthma and migraines in adults: Two longitudinal follow-up studies.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Asthma.Pediatrics in review · 2019Review
- Vitamin D Status Modifies the Response to Indoor Particulate Matter in Obese Urban Children with Asthma.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practiceArticle
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Abstract
purposeRacial disparities in childhood asthma prevalence increased after the 1990s. Obesity, which also varies by race/ethnicity, is an asthma risk factor but its contribution to asthma prevalence disparities is unknown.
methodsWe analyzed nationally representative National Health Examination and Nutrition Survey data for 2-19 year olds with logistic regression and decomposition analyses to assess the contributions of weight status to racial disparities in asthma prevalence, controlling for sex, age, and income status.
resultsFrom 1988-1994 to 2011-2014, asthma prevalence increased more among non-Hispanic black (NHB) (8.4% to 18.0%) than non-Hispanic white (NHW) youth (7.2% to 10.3%). Logistic regression showed that obesity was an asthma risk factor for all groups but that a three-way "weight status-race/ethnicity-time" interaction was not significant. That is, weight status did not modify the race/ethnicity association with asthma over time. In decomposition analyses, weight status had a small contribution to NHB/NHW asthma prevalence disparities but most of the disparity remained unexplained by weight status or other asthma risk factors (sex, age and income status).
conclusionsNHB youth had a greater asthma prevalence increase from 1988-1994 to 2011-2014 than NHW youth. Most of the racial disparity in asthma prevalence remained unexplained after considering weight status and other characteristics.
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