The Role of Childhood Asthma in Obesity Development: A Nationwide US Multicohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Asthma and obesity often co-occur. It has been hypothesized that asthma may contribute to childhood obesity onset.

Objectives

To determine if childhood asthma is associated with incident obesity and examine the role of asthma medication in this association.

Methods

We studied 8,716 children between ages 6 and 18.5 years who were nonobese at study entry participating in 18 US cohorts of the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes program (among 7,299 children with complete covariate data mean [SD] study entry age = 7.2 [1.6] years and follow up = 5.3 [3.1] years).

Measurements and main results

We defined asthma based on caregiver report of provider diagnosis. Incident obesity was defined as the first documented body mass index ≥95th percentil

SUBMITTER: Stratakis N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8633057 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature