ArticleHospital pediatrics2018
Impact of Obesity on Asthma Morbidity During a Hospitalization.
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- Risk Factors for Life-Threatening Asthma Attacks and Asthma-Related Mortality in Children-A Systematic Review.Pediatric pulmonology · 2025Pooled it
- The Impact of Obesity on Asthma as Regards In-hospital Complications and Early Readmission.Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine · 2026Article
- Associations between body weight, asthma burden, and type 2 inflammation among under-resourced children.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2026Article
- National Economic Burden of Pediatric Asthma Hospitalizations.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2025Article
- Obesity: Next game changer of allergic airway diseases?Clinical and translational medicine · 2025Review
- Exploring the association between asthma and chronic comorbidities: impact on clinical outcomes.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Review
- Obesity-related pediatric asthma: relationships between pulmonary function and clinical outcomes.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2023Article
- Crosstalk between CD4American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2023Article
- Severe asthma in children: Description of a large multidisciplinary clinical cohort.Pediatric pulmonology · 2022Article
- Obesity Is Associated with Sustained Symptomatology and Unique Inflammatory Features in Children with Asthma.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2022Article
- Frontiers Review: Severe Asthma in Adolescents.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Review
- Frequency of persistent obesity 5 years after first time diagnosis of status asthmaticus.The clinical respiratory journal · 2021Observational
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- Obesity and Health-Related Quality of Life in Children Hospitalized for Acute Respiratory Illness.Hospital pediatrics · 2021Article
- Plasma lipid biomarkers in relation to BMI, lung function, and airway inflammation in pediatric asthma.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2021Article
- The impact of obesity on immune function in pediatric asthma.Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology · 2021Review
- Parental Feeding, Child Eating and Physical Activity: Differences in Children Living with and without Asthma.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Atopy and pulmonary function among healthy-weight and overweight/obese children with asthma.Pediatric pulmonology · 2021Article
- Functional Genomics of the Pediatric Obese Asthma Phenotype Reveal Enrichment of Rho-GTPase Pathways.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2020Article
- Quantifying the Contribution of Obesity to Incident Childhood Asthma: It's About Time.Pediatrics · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundAsthma and obesity are 2 common pediatric problems. Obesity is a known risk factor for asthma, and obese children with asthma have higher disease burden. However, little is known on how obesity in urban minority children, mainly Hispanic and African American children, impacts morbidity during pediatric asthma hospitalizations.
methodsA retrospective chart review was conducted on children and adolescents age 2 to 18 years hospitalized at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore for an acute asthma exacerbation. We elucidated the association of overweight or obese status with severity of the exacerbation, quantified by length of stay (LOS) and need for intensive care management. Multivariate analysis was conducted to identify independent predictors of LOS.
resultsA total of 975 children met the inclusion criteria, of whom 55% were normal weight and 45% were overweight or obese. Sixty percent were Hispanic, and 37% were African American. The overall average LOS was 2.57 days (range: 0.67-12.92). Overweight or obese status was associated with a higher asthma severity at baseline (
conclusionsObesity in children hospitalized for asthma is associated with more severe asthma exacerbations, longer LOS, and increased use of PICU level care, independent of their higher baseline disease severity and ethnicity.
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