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05 Aug 2008
People who are obese and who also have asthma may carry a certain trait that causes them to have poorer control of the breathing condition than those who are not overweight, a new study suggests.
Carried out by researchers from Quebec and published in the August issue of the journal Chest, the study measured a number of factors - including wait-to-hip ratios, body mass index (BMI) and perception of symptoms - of 88 participants.
Half of the subjects were obese and had asthma, while the other half were not overweight and also had the breathing condition.
Differences in breathing patterns and functions suggested that obese patients may well have a different trait of asthma than those who are not obese, online news resource Eurekalert notes.
Meanwhile, research carried out by staff from the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center recently found that having excess fat around the heart could increase the likelihood of a person having a heart attack more than a high BMI.
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