Study: Children with asthma more likely to become obese
New University of Southern California (USC) research finds that children with asthma are 51 percent more likely to become obese over the next decade compared to kids who did not have the respiratory condition.
The study, published on Jan. 20 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, also indicated that children who used asthma inhalers when they had an attack were 43 percent less likely to become obese.