respiratory tract infections/비만증

BACKGROUND Because respiratory tract infections (RTIs) precede most exacerbations, a better understanding of the risk factors of RTIs and RTI-associated exacerbations in patients with asthma is a pressing public health need. Obesity in patients with asthma is associated with worse asthma control and

Obesity has a high prevalence among children. On the other hand, acute respiratory infections especially of viral origin, are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in this age group. During the recent pandemic of influenza A (H1N1) virus, obesity was identified as a novel independent risk

OBJECTIVE Recent evidence suggests that obesity increases the risk of severe outcomes following respiratory infection. It is less clear whether obesity is associated with the risk of being infected with influenza or other respiratory pathogens. Therefore, we examined the association between obesity

Prader-Willi syndrome is a neurogenetic disorder characterized by a number of signs and symptoms, including muscular hypotonia in infancy, hypogonadism, obesity and short stature. Neurobehavioral abnormalities and cognitive impairment are common. In addition, breathing abnormalities have been

A controlled trial has been carried out to test the widely held "clinical impression" that overweight infants have a greater liability to respiratory infections than those of normal weight. Two matched groups of children aged between 3 months and 2 years were studied, containing children whose

Introduction: obesity is related to a higher morbidity and mortality in adults with respiratory infections but in children the evidence is limited. Objective: to study the association between overweight and clinical course in children younger than two years of age, hospitalized for lower respiratory

This cross-sectional field health survey has as its subjects 1129 preadolescent children resident in Krakow. Trained health visitors interviewed the mothers at the children's schools or at the parents' homes in order to gather standardized information regarding the families' social background and

The number of overweight and obese individuals has dramatically increased in the US and other developed nations during the past 30 years. While type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease are well recognized co-morbid conditions associated with obesity, recent reports have demonstrated a greater

Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are a major morbidity factor contributing largely to health care costs and individual quality of life. The aim of the study was to test whether obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2) is one of the risk factors underlying frequent RTIs in the German adult population. We

OBJECTIVE Obesity is the most common public health problem and is a clinically complicating risk factor among hospitalized children. The impact of pediatric obesity on the severity and morbidity of lower respiratory tract infections remains unclear. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study

OBJECTIVE Shortly after the advent of severe acute respiratory syndrome and the avian influenza, the emergence of the influenza A(H1N1)2009 pandemic caused significant vibrations to the public health authorities and stressed the health systems worldwide. We sought to investigate whether this

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present retrospective study was to examine the clinical differences between patients hospitalized with H1N1 virus and those hospitalized with nonvirus respiratory tract infection in 2009 and 2010. METHODS Adult patient data were collected from three tertiary hospital