Can Obesity Causes Asthma

For you who have a excess body fat or weight loss should be more alert to maintain health.
Research indicates the body fat tend to be susceptible to some types of dangerous diseases, ranging of high blood pressure, arthritis, to diabetes.
In the the latest report medical journal Archives of Internal Medicine, Italian researchers said that obesity (obesity) may also something to do with asthma as based on research, people with asthma tend to have overweight.
Based on the information of Dr.. Sylvia Young of the Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit in Sigonella, Italy. Asthma is a types of diseases that attacks one of 18 Americans. A quarter of population were obese (fat). He said, this fact is increasingly raising concern that obesity may increase the risk of asthma.
In the recent years, research on obesity is growing and has always attracted the attention of experts. For that Young and his colleagues examined the relationship between asthma and obesity (obesity)

by comparing the body mass index (BMI).

Young respondents in his research involving the health care system following the northwestern region of the U.S. military. After calculating age and gender, researchers noted that the respondents diagnosed with asthma has 20 percent of the tendency
'pre-obese' (with a BMI value between 25 to 29.9) than other patients.
Additionally, after the researchers categorize only patients who received treatment are considered to have asthma, the trend was rising up to 40 percent.

The findings of indicated that patients with asthma is much closer to the category of obese (BMI of about 30 or more) than other patients with a tendency among three to fourfold. Patients with asthma also tended to a woman and was diagnosed with arthtritis compared with patients not diagnosed with asthma.

However, in comments to the researchers still emphasizing the need for continued research to determine whether obesity is can lead to asthma.