Is obesity making asthma suffer even more?

This article shows how obesty can make asthma suffers suffer even more

With health care on the rise it is even higher in adult asthmatic patients when compared with non-asthmatic patients and inactivity and obesity are contributing to this increase.

Many hospitals are seeing more overnight hospital stays were more common in inactive asthmatic patients regardless of body mass index (BMI), where as both BMI and physical activity were important determinants of physician consultations.

                                                           Here are three reasons why:

(A) Patients with asthma were 2.25 times more likely to have an overnight hospital stay, 1.48 times more likely to have  four or more overnight hospital stays and 2.43 times more likely to have three or more physician consultations compared with patients without asthma.

(B) Inactive patients with asthma were 1.68 times more likely to have an overnight hospital stay and 1.23 times more likely to have three or more physician consultations than active patients with asthma.

(C) Inactive/obese patients with asthma were 2.35 times more likely to have an overnight hospital stay and 2.76 times more likely to have three or more physician consultations than active/normal weight with asthma.

Asthmatics whether obese or normal weight can benefit greatly from adopting and maintaining an active lifestyle. Doctors and nurses working with asthmatics should inform their patients of the benefits of an active lifestyle, and the various ways in which they can overcome asthma specific barriers  to physical activity, such as exercise induced asthma. Higher activity levels not only help the individual with asthma, but also have a potential to relieve some of the burden being placed on the health-care system.

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