Obesity Worsens Impact Of Asthma, Study Shows
Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 06:21
in Health & Medicine
Obesity can worsen the impact of asthma and may also mask its severity in standard tests, according to researchers in New Zealand, who studied lung function in asthmatic women with a range of body mass indexes.
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