Overweight and obesity as risk factors for impaired lung function in patients with asthma: A real-life experience

Allergy and Asthma Proceedings

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Ciprandi, Giorgio ^a   Schiavetti, Irene ^b   Fontana, Rossana Bellezza ^c   Sorbello, Valentina ^c   Ricciardolo, Fabio L M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; METHACHOLINE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHEMILUMINESCENCE ANALYZER; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION DISORDER; RISK FACTOR; SPIROMETER; SPIROMETRY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; UNDERWEIGHT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; COMPLICATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ASTHMA; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 84904998708     PISSN: 10885412     EISSN: 15396304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2500/aap.2014.35.3773     Document Type: Article

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