Abdominal fat, associated with diabetes and heart disease, may also be related to the development of asthma.
This is the finding of a new Norwegian study.
Prior research has highlighted an association with asthma and body mass index (BMI), a height to weight ratio which indicates overall obesity.
For eleven years researchers monitored 23,245 adults who did not have asthma, aged between 19 and 55, from the second Norwegian Nord-Trondelag Health Study.
The study participants were measured for BMI along their waist circumference for overall obesity and central obesity. They also provided details of incidence of asthma. The results highlighted that those who had abdominal fat but were not overall obese were 1.44 times more susceptible to developing asthma.
Moreover, those who had abdominal fat and were obese overall were 1.81 times more likely to develop asthma.
Abdominal Fat Related to Diabetes and Asthma
Mon, 26 Sep 2011
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