Obesity Does Not Worsen Asthma, But May Reduce Response To Medications
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - 09:21
in Health & Medicine
Obesity has been linked to whole host of conditions, ranging from heart disease to diabetes and cancer. Previous research has suggested that being overweight or obese also raises your risk of developing asthma. New research however, indicates that being overweight or obese does not make your asthma worse. This suggests that losing weight will not improve a patient's asthma.
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