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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

Obesity Does Not Increase the Risk of Asthma Readmissions.

Francisco-Javier Gonzalez-Barcala, Juan-José Nieto-Fontarigo, Tamara Lourido-Cebreiro, Carlota Rodríguez-García, Maria-Esther San-Jose, Jose-Martín Carreira, Uxio Calvo-Alvarez, Maria-Jesus Cruz, David Facal, Maria-Teresa Garcia-Sanz and 2 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Francisco-Javier Gonzalez-BarcalaDepartment of Medicine, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Juan-José Nieto-FontarigoDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology-Biological Research Centre (CIBUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Tamara Lourido-CebreiroDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Carlota Rodríguez-GarcíaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Maria-Esther San-JoseClinical Analysis Service, University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Jose-Martín CarreiraDepartment of Radiology, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Uxio Calvo-AlvarezDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of Ferrol, 15045 Ferrol, Spain.
Maria-Jesus CruzSpanish Biomedical Research Networking Centre-CIBERES, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
David FacalDepartment of Developmental Psychology, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Maria-Teresa Garcia-SanzEmergency Department, Hospital O Salnes, Vilagarcía de Arousa, 36600, Spain.
Luis Valdes-CuadradoDepartment of Medicine, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Francisco-Javier SalgadoDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology-Biological Research Centre (CIBUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela · ESCentro de Investigación Biomédica en Red · ESComplejo Hospitalario Universitario de Ferrol · ESHospital Arnau de Vilanova · ESLund University · SE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The relationship between obesity and asthma exacerbations is still under debate. The aim of our work is to analyse the relationship between obesity and hospital re-admissions in asthmatics. A review was retrospectively performed on all hospital admissions of adult patients due to asthma exacerbation occurring in our hospital for 11 years. All those cases with asthma as the first diagnosis in the discharge report were included, or those with asthma as the second diagnosis provided when the first diagnosis was respiratory infection or respiratory failure. Only the first hospital admission of each patient was included in this study. The Odds Ratios of a higher incidence of early/late readmissions due to asthma exacerbation were calculated using a binary logistic regression, using the body mass index (BMI) as independent variable, adjusted for all the variables included in the study. The study included 809 patients with a mean age of 55.6 years, and 65.2% were female. The majority (71.4%) were obese or overweight. No significant relationship was observed in the univariate or multivariate analyses between overweight or obesity and the early or late hospital readmissions due to asthma. Therefore, obesity does not seem to be a determining factor in the risk of asthma exacerbations.

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