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… relationship between upper respiratory infections and hospital admissions for asthma: a time-trend … -
SL Johnston, PK Pattemore, G Sanderson, S Smith, … - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 1996 - Am Thoracic Soc
... J. Hunter, S. L Johnston, and A. Woodcock Synergism between allergens and viruses
and risk of hospital admission with asthma: case-control study BMJ, March 30 ...

… of Risk of Asthma Death or Readmission in the 12 Months Following a Hospital Admission for Asthma -
J CRANE, N PEARCE, C BURGESS, K WOODMAN, B ROBSON, … - International Journal of Epidemiology, 1992 - IEA
... Association. ARTICLES. Markers of risk of asthma death or readmission in
the 12 months following a hospital admission for asthma. J ...

… hospital admission through computer supported education for asthma patients. Grampian Asthma Study … -
LM Osman, MI Abdalla, JA Beattie, SJ Ross, IT … - BMJ, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Click here to read Reducing hospital admission through computer supported education
for asthma patients. Grampian Asthma Study of Integrated Care (GRASSIC). ...

Hospital admissions for asthma in preschool children: relationship to major roads in Birmingham, … -
J Edwards, S Walters, RK Griffiths - Arch Environ Health, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... This study examined the relationship between residence near major roads, traffic
flow, and risk of hospital admission for asthma in children younger than 5 y ...

International trends in hospital admission rates for asthma -
EA Mitchell - Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1985 - fetalneonatal.com
... PAPERS. International trends in hospital admission rates for asthma. EA Mitchell.
Trends in annual hospital admission rates for asthma ...

Increase in hospital admissions for childhood asthma: trends in referral, severity, and readmissions … -
HR Anderson - British Medical Journal, 1989 - thorax.bmj.com
... Home page, Thorax Home page DS Morrison and P McLoone Changing patterns of hospital
admission for asthma, 1981-97 Thorax, September 1, 2001; 56(9): 687 - 690. ...

Effects of Ambient Air Pollution on Nonelderly Asthma Hospital Admissions in Seattle, Washington, … -
L Sheppard, D Levy, G Norris, TV Larson, JQ Koenig - Epidemiology, 1999 - JSTOR
... 2 FIGURE 3. Percent change in hospital admission rates and 95% CIs for an IQR increase
in pollutants from single-pollutant models for asthma and appendicitis ...

… between allergens and viruses and risk of hospital admission with asthma: case-control study -
RM Green, A Custovic, G Sanderson, J Hunter, SL … - BMJ: British Medical Journal, 2002 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... 2002 March 30; 324(7340): 763. Copyright ? 2002, BMJ. Synergism between allergens
and viruses and risk of hospital admission with asthma: case-control study. ...

A multi-year study of air pollution and respiratory hospital admissions in three New York State … -
GD Thurston, K Ito, PL Kinney, M Lippmann - J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol, 1992 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... In addition, daily hospital admissions for respiratory causes, other community ...
calculations indicated that the risk of admission for asthma was increased ...

Air pollution and hospital admissions in Southern Ontario: the acid summer haze effect. -
DV Bates, R Sizto - Environ Res, 1987 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Overweight asthmatics have more hospital admissions

 

By Amy Norton

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Excess pounds may increase the likelihood of being hospitalized for a severe asthma attack, a new study suggests.

Researchers found that among more than 400 patients who were seen in the emergency department for an asthma attack, those who were overweight or obese tended to have longer emergency department stays and were more likely to be admitted to the hospital.

After being treated in the emergency department, 14 percent of overweight patients had to be hospitalized, versus 7 percent of normal-weight patients, the study found.

The findings suggest that overweight adults may tend to have more severe asthma than their normal-weight counterparts, according to lead researcher Dr. Gustavo J. Rodrigo, of the Hospital Central de las FF.AA in Montevideo, Uruguay.

It's also possible that overweight asthmatics perceive symptoms of breathlessness as more severe, he told Reuters Health.

Rodrigo and colleague Dr. Vicente Plaza report the findings in the medical journal Chest.

In the study, the researchers evaluated 426 adults with asthma who came to the emergency department over a 2-year period. All of the patients received albuterol, an inhaled medication used to prevent and treat asthma attacks, and intravenous hydrocortisone, a steroid. Patients with a decline in the blood oxygen levels of more than 8 percent also received oxygen.

Overall, both normal-weight and overweight patients responded similarly to treatment, based on objective measures of lung function, Rodrigo said. However, overweight patients' symptoms, mainly wheezing, tended to persist longer -- which is likely the main reason for their higher rate of hospitalization, he explained.

Whether overweight asthmatics perceive their symptoms differently, or whether their underlying airway dysfunction is actually more severe, is not clear, the researchers say.

Rodrigo said that for anyone suffering an asthma exacerbation, objective measures of lung function -- specifically, peak expiratory flow and forced expiratory volume -- should be done upon emergency department arrival, shortly after treatment and then at regular follow-up visits.

This, he explained, gives an objective picture of both the general severity of the asthma and how well a person is responding to therapy.

SOURCE: Chest, November 2007.

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