Obesity does not increase the risk of asthma readmissions
González Barcala, Francisco Javier; Nieto-Fontarigo, Juan-José; Lourido Cebreiro, Tamara; Rodríguez García, Carlota; San José Capilla, María Esther; Carreira Villamor, José Martín; Calvo Alvarez, Uxio; Cruz, Maria-Jesus; Facal, David; Garcia-Sanz, Maria-Teresa; Valdés Cuadrado, Luis; Salgado, Francisco-Javier
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11940/16321
PMID: 31947560
DOI: 10.3390/jcm9010221
ISSN: 2077-0383
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Fecha de publicación
2020Título de revista
Journal of Clinical Medicine
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Journal Article
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pronóstico | obesidadMeSH
Obesity | PrognosisResumen
The relationship between obesity and asthma exacerbations is still under debate. The aim of our work is to analyse the relationship between obesity and hospital re-admissions in asthmatics. A review was retrospectively performed on all hospital admissions of adult patients due to asthma exacerbation occurring in our hospital for 11 years. All those cases with asthma as the first diagnosis in the discharge report were included, or those with asthma as the second diagnosis provided when the first diagnosis was respiratory infection or respiratory failure. Only the first hospital admission of each patient was included in this study. The Odds Ratios of a higher incidence of early/late readmissions due to asthma exacerbation were calculated using a binary logistic regression, using the body mass index (BMI) as independent variable, adjusted for all the variables included in the study. The study included 809 patients with a mean age of 55.6 years, and 65.2% were female. The majority (71.4%) were obese or overweight. No significant relationship was observed in the univariate or multivariate analyses between overweight or obesity and the early or late hospital readmissions due to asthma. Therefore, obesity does not seem to be a determining factor in the risk of asthma exacerbations.
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