Excess Belly Fat Contributes to Asthma Cases

September 21st, 2009 by admin

Studies have found that women with a large waistline are at increased risk of developing asthma. Belly fat which causes a waist bigger than 88cm is more likely to develop the condition in those women. The link between obesity and developing asthma in adulthood has also been reconfirmed. The California Teachers Study research started in 1995. The journal Thorax revealed that those who were overweight were 40% more likely to develop asthma than women of normal weight, (BMI 18 to 25). The risk for obese women developing asthma more than doubled, while that for extremely obese women more than tripled. Even women with normal weight but measuring more than 88cm at the waist saw a small rise in their risk.

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