Childhood Obesity Linked To Asthma
Sunday, December 14, 2008 - 18:21
in Health & Medicine
A new study that found that healthy children with higher levels of body fat and lower levels of physical activity had greater amounts of airway narrowing after exercise. These findings may point to the increase over the past several decades in asthma prevalence as well as obesity prevalence, the researcher said.
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