Obesity and asthma: clinical and laboratory characterization of a common combination.
Juliana Pires Viana de JesusAline Silva Lima-MatosPaula Cristina Andrade AlmeidaValmar Bião de LimaLuane Marques de MelloAdelmir Souza MachadoEduardo Vieira PonteÁlvaro Augusto CruzPublished in: Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia (2019)
Obese individuals with asthma seem to present with poorer asthma control and lower pulmonary function values than do nonobese individuals. The proportion of subjects with nonatopic asthma was higher in the obese group. Our results suggest that obese individuals with asthma show a distinct inflammatory pattern and are more likely to present with difficult-to-control asthma than are nonobese individuals.