Warning: Obese children are prone to asthma

A recent study has warned that obese children will have more severe asthma symptoms and a higher risk of death.

Researchers have compiled from reports published inPediatric Allergy and Immunologylooked at the records of nearly 40,000 Japanese children with asthma.

They found that obese children were more likely to be admitted to hospital and had longer hospital stays than children of normal weight. The analysis also warned that obese children were at higher risk of death.

For the study, researchers looked at the records of 38,679 children in Japan with asthma. Of these, 3,177 were underweight, 28,904 were of normal weight, 3,334 were overweight, and 3,264 were obese. All of the children were between 3 and 8 years old.

All patients were hospitalized for asthma, and the researchers looked at how often all participating children were readmitted within 30 days of discharge.

The researchers also looked at the initial hospital stay of each participating infant, regardless of whether the infants needed special care, and the medical costs incurred during the hospital stay.

As a result, obese children hospitalized for asthma stay longer in the hospital and are more likely to be readmitted within 30 days.

“These findings demonstrate that obesity is a risk factor for repeated hospitalizations in children with asthma, and highlight the importance of preventing childhood obesity,” the researchers said.

These results suggest that obese children need more attention and more aggressive treatment to control their asthma after discharge from the hospital. Physicians also need to pay special attention to asthmatic children who are obese.

A report released last week by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that obesity affects about one in five American children. Meanwhile, research by the British medical journal The Lancet in conjunction with the World Health Organization (WHO) also warned that the rate of obesity in children worldwide is alarmingly increasing.

So experts are warning that if the childhood obesity crisis is left unchecked, the generation of children reflected in recent reports and studies will face a host of weight-related health problems as they grow up.

According to Dantri