Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Editorial
. 2021 Apr;26(4):288-289.
doi: 10.1111/resp.14012. Epub 2021 Feb 9.

There is more to severe asthma associated with obesity than inflammation

Sarah Svenningsen  1 , Parameswaran Nair  1
Affiliations
Free article
Editorial

There is more to severe asthma associated with obesity than inflammation

Sarah Svenningsen et al. Respirology. 2021 Apr.
Free article
No abstract available

Keywords: inflammation; obesity; severe asthma.

PubMed Disclaimer

Comment on

References

REFERENCES

    1. Després JP, Lemieux I. Abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome. Nature 2006; 444: 881-7.
    1. Sutherland ER, Goleva E, King TS, Lehman E, Stevens AD, Jackson LP, Stream AR, Fahy JV, Leung DY; Asthma Clinical Research Network. Cluster analysis of obesity and asthma phenotypes. PLoS One 2012; 7: e36631.
    1. Moore WC, Meyers DA, Wenzel SE, Teague WG, Li H, Li X, D'Agostino R Jr, Castro M, Curran-Everett D, Fitzpatrick AM et al. Identification of asthma phenotypes using cluster analysis in the Severe Asthma Research Program. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2010; 181: 315-23.
    1. Giesler A, Mukherjee M, Radford K, Janssen L, Nair P. Modulation of human airway smooth muscle biology by human adipocytes. Respir. Res. 2018; 19: 33.
    1. Peters MC, McGrath KW, Hawkins GA, Hastie AT, Levy BD, Israel E, Phillips BR, Mauger DT, Comhair SA, Erzurum SC et al.; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Severe Asthma Research Program. Plasma interleukin-6 concentrations, metabolic dysfunction, and asthma severity: a cross-sectional analysis of two cohorts. Lancet Respir. Med. 2016; 4: 574-84.