Measures of Obesity Associated with Asthma Diagnosis in Ethnic Minority Children

• Main Authors: Nita Vangeepuram (Author), Susan L. Teitelbaum (Author), Maida P. Galvez (Author), Barbara Brenner (Author), John Doucette (Author), Mary S. Wolff (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective. The study objective was to examine relationships between different body size measurements and asthma in ethnic minority children. Methods. We used data from a community-based study of 505 children aged 6-to-8 years old to study the association of percent body fat, fat distribution, and BM...