Adiponectin: the link between obesity and asthma in women?

Title: Adiponectin: the link between obesity and asthma in women?
Creator: Wood, Lisa G.; Gibson, Peter G.
Relation: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Vol. 186, Issue 1, p. 1-2
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201204-0744ED
Publisher: American Thoracic Society
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2012
Description: The study by Sood and colleagues in this issue of the Journal (pp. 41–47) provides further insight into the association between obesity and asthma. Both obesity and asthma have increased in prevalence in recent decades, and asthma risk is increased by 50% in the overweight and obese. Obesity appears to have a causal role in asthma, as prospective studies have reported that obesity precedes asthma onset and weight gain is associated with asthma onset. The mechanisms linking asthma and obesity are not well understood, with mechanical, anatomical, and inflammatory causes being proposed. Sood and coworkers examine adiponectin as a potential link.
Subject: asthma; obesity; adiponectin; women
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1061284
Identifier: uon:16925
Identifier: ISSN:1073-449X
Language: eng

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