TY - JOUR T1 - Obesity and asthma symptoms in children JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J VL - 40 IS - Suppl 56 SP - P1943 AU - Francisco-Javier Gonzalez-Barcala AU - Sonia Pértega AU - Juan Sánchez Lastres AU - Miguel Angel San José Gonzalez AU - Luis Bamonde AU - Luciano Garnelo AU - Teresa Pérez Castro AU - Manuel Sampedro AU - Luis Valdes AU - José-Manuel Alvarez-Dobaño AU - Lucía Ferreiro AU - Angel López Silvarrey Y1 - 2012/09/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/40/Suppl_56/P1943.abstract N2 - INTRODUCTION: The relationship between obesity and asthma show inconsistent results.The purpose of our study was to evaluate the prevalence of asthma according to obesity in a large sample of the child population in our region (total population 2795422).METHODS: A cross-sectional study, following the ISAAC study methodology, was conducted on randomly selected 6-7 year old children.The asthma symptoms, demographic characteristics, and other potential risk factors were determined from the questionnaire. Overweight and obesity were defined based on the body mass index.Multiple logistic regression were used to obtain adjusted prevalence odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) between asthma symptoms and obesity.RESULTS: Finally, 7485 children were included (50.8% female).Our results shown that 23.4% of our children were overweight, and 9.6% were obese.The prevalence of wheezing ever was 39.0%, that of current asthma 13.5%, severe asthma 4.9%, and exercise induced asthma 6.4%.Obesity was associated with an increase in the probability of wheezing ever (OR: 1.35) and exercise induced asthma (OR: 1.62).View this table:Odds ratio for prevalence of asthma symptoms according to obesity and overweight in childrenCONCLUSION: In our population, obesity was associated with a higher prevalence of asthma in young children. ER -