ArticlePediatrics2018
Being Overweight or Obese and the Development of Asthma.
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- Interventions to prevent obesity in Latinx children birth to 6 years globally: a systematic review.Public health nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Cord blood epigenome-wide meta-analysis in six European-based child cohorts identifies signatures linked to rapid weight growth.BMC medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Bidirectional Association Between Asthma and Obesity During Childhood and Adolescence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2020Pooled it
- Obesity-Related Asthma: Structure and Inflammation.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2026Review
- Evidence-based guideline for clinical practice in the diagnosis, treatment, management, and prevention of recurrent wheezing in infants and toddlers in China.Pediatric investigation · 2026Article
- Obesity and asthma: obesity causes and aggravates asthma across the entire type-2 inflammation spectrum.The European respiratory journal · 2026Review
- Combining bioinformatics and machine learning to identify common mechanisms and biomarkers of childhood asthma and obesity.Translational pediatrics · 2026Article
- T cell dysregulation and remodeling in pediatric obesity and weight loss.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Lysophosphatidylcholine 18:2 exacerbates Th17-dominant inflammation in obese asthma.Lipids in health and disease · 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
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- Metformin use is associated with reduced systemic steroid courses among pediatric asthma patients with diabetes or elevated blood glucose levels.Respiratory medicine · 2025 · on this mapObservational
- Dietary Habits and Their Impact on Pediatric Obesity and Asthma: A Narrative Review with Emphasis on the Mediterranean Diet.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- National Economic Burden of Pediatric Asthma Hospitalizations.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2025Article
- Risk factors and prediction for pediatric obesity: current status and future perspectives.Endocrine journal · 2025Review
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- Barriers to Healthy Eating and Influences on the Dietary Patterns and Eating Behaviours of 18-36-Month-Old Children in Ireland.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2025Article
- Obesity is a growing problem and a modifiable factor affecting lung health.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Trajectory of Early Life Adiposity Among South Asian Children.JAMA network open · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectivesAdult obesity is linked to asthma cases and is estimated to lead to 250 000 new cases yearly. Similar incidence and attributable risk (AR) estimates have not been developed for children. We sought to describe the relationship between overweight and obesity and incident asthma in childhood and quantify AR statistics in the United States for overweight and obesity on pediatric asthma.
methodsThe PEDSnet clinical data research network was used to conduct a retrospective cohort study (January 2009-December 2015) to compare asthma incidence among overweight and/or obese versus healthy weight 2- to 17-year-old children. Asthma incidence was defined as ≥2 encounters with a diagnosis of asthma and ≥1 asthma controller prescription. Stricter diagnostic criteria involved confirmation by spirometry. We used multivariable Poisson regression analyses to estimate incident asthma rates and risk ratios and accepted formulas for ARs.
resultsData from 507 496 children and 19 581 972 encounters were included. The mean participant observation period was 4 years. The adjusted risk for incident asthma was increased among children who were overweight (relative risk [RR]: 1.17; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.10-1.25) and obese (RR: 1.26; 95% CI: 1.18-1.34). The adjusted risk for spirometry-confirmed asthma was increased among children with obesity (RR: 1.29; 95% CI: 1.16-1.42). An estimated 23% to 27% of new asthma cases in children with obesity is directly attributable to obesity. In the absence of overweight and obesity, 10% of all cases of asthma would be avoided.
conclusionsObesity is a major preventable risk factor for pediatric asthma.
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