RT Journal Article
T1 Obesity Does Not Increase the Risk of Asthma Readmissions
A1 González Barcala, Francisco Javier
A1 Nieto Fontarigo, Juan José
A1 Lourido-Cebreiro, Tamara
A1 Rodríguez-García, Carlota
A1 San-José, María Esther
A1 Carreira Villamor, José Martin
A1 Calvo-Álvarez, Uxío
A1 Cruz, María Jesús
A1 Facal Mayo, David
A1 García-Sanz, María Teresa
A1 Valdés Cuadrado, Luis
A1 Salgado Castro, Francisco Javier
AB 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.
PB MDPI
YR 2020
FD 2020-01-14
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/39290
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/39290
LA eng
DS Minerva
RD 23 abr 2026