Extra Weight May Raise Kids' Asthma Risk

Could ending childhood obesity reduce rates of childhood asthma? Research from the Nemours Children’s Health System suggests that it could.
The Nemours study, published in Pediatrics, is one of the first to have used resources from PEDSnet, a network of eight of the largest children’s health centers in the United States that performs research and clinical trials. Looking at data from 500,000 children’s medical records from 2009 to 2015, they concluded that eliminating childhood obesity could prevent 10 percent of all asthma cases in children.
The patients represented by the medical records were between ages 2 and 17 and met certain criteria, including a BMI in the 85th percentile or higher for their age and gender and no prior asthma diagnosis. Each overweight or obese child was compared with a normal-weight child of the same age, gender, race, and other factors.
The researchers found that obesity was responsible for 23 to 27 percent of new childhood asthma cases in children with obesity. They also found that obesity increased the severity of asthma in these children.
Childhood asthma is one of the most common pediatric conditions and, say the researchers, focusing on obesity as a preventable risk factor is an important step toward cutting the number of pediatric asthma cases.
Sourced from: Pediatrics
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The Income-Weight Link: Men vs. Women

According to a Gallup survey, income is closely tied to body weight in both men and women in the United States, but in completely different ways. Women with lower incomes tend to weigh more than women making more money, but men with lower incomes typically weigh less than men who make more. The survey also revealed gender-related differences in the way men and women with varying incomes view obesity.
Over the past 10 years, American men have weighed an average of 10 pounds more in households earning $75,000 or more annually compared to men in households with incomes of less than $30,000 per year. On the other hand, American women in the higher-end income bracket weighed an average of 12 pounds less than those with lower earnings. Using self-reported information from annual Health and Healthcare surveys of more than 10,000 respondents between 2009 to 2018, Gallup found that:
Men with annual earnings of $75,000 or more weighed 200 pounds, on average
Men with earnings of less than $30,000 per year averaged 190 pounds
Women with annual earnings of $75,000 or more weighed 152 pounds, on average
Women with annual earnings of less than $30,000 averaged 164 pounds
As far as weight perception is concerned, about 38 percent of men with higher incomes consider themselves to be overweight, compared to 28 percent of men who make less money. Among women, 35 percent of those with higher incomes consider themselves to be overweight, compared to 45 percent of those in lower- and middle-income brackets. In men, those who make more money are also more likely to say they’d like to lose weight, while about 60 percent of women in any income group say they want to lose weight.
Sourced from: Gallup
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