TY - JOUR
T1 - Asthma and obesity in three-year-old urban children
T2 - Role of sex and home environment
AU - Suglia, Shakira Franco
AU - Chambers, Earle C.
AU - Rosario, Andres
AU - Duarte, Cristiane S.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson New Connections Initiative (S.S., E.C., C.D.), the Emerging Scholars Interdisciplinary Network Race, Ethnicity and Obesity Workgroup (to E.C. and C.D.), the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (K01 HL103199-01 to S.S.) and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ( R21HD056170-01 to C.D.). The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (grant R01HD36916 ). The contents of the paper are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
PY - 2011/7
Y1 - 2011/7
N2 - Objective: To examine whether the relationship between obesity and asthma in young girls and boys can be explained by social and physical characteristics of the home environment. Study design: We examined the relationship between asthma and obesity in children in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (n = 1815). Asthma was determined through maternal report of asthma diagnosis by a doctor (active in past 12 months). Weight and height of child was measured during an in-home visit. Data on home social (maternal depression, intimate partner violence) and physical environmental factors (housing quality, tobacco exposure) were collected via questionnaire. Results: Ten percent of children had active asthma, 19% of children were overweight, and 17% of children were obese. In fully adjusted models, obese children had twice the odds of having asthma (OR, 2.3; 95% CI, 1.5-3.3) compared with children of normal body weight. In stratified analyses, overweight boys, but not overweight girls, had increased of odds of asthma. Obese boys and girls had increased odds of asthma compared with boys and girls of normal body weight. Conclusion: The relationship between asthma and obesity is present in boys and girls as young as 3 years of age; a relationship between being overweight and asthma is only present among boys. This relationship is not attributable to shared social and environmental factors of the children's home.
AB - Objective: To examine whether the relationship between obesity and asthma in young girls and boys can be explained by social and physical characteristics of the home environment. Study design: We examined the relationship between asthma and obesity in children in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (n = 1815). Asthma was determined through maternal report of asthma diagnosis by a doctor (active in past 12 months). Weight and height of child was measured during an in-home visit. Data on home social (maternal depression, intimate partner violence) and physical environmental factors (housing quality, tobacco exposure) were collected via questionnaire. Results: Ten percent of children had active asthma, 19% of children were overweight, and 17% of children were obese. In fully adjusted models, obese children had twice the odds of having asthma (OR, 2.3; 95% CI, 1.5-3.3) compared with children of normal body weight. In stratified analyses, overweight boys, but not overweight girls, had increased of odds of asthma. Obese boys and girls had increased odds of asthma compared with boys and girls of normal body weight. Conclusion: The relationship between asthma and obesity is present in boys and girls as young as 3 years of age; a relationship between being overweight and asthma is only present among boys. This relationship is not attributable to shared social and environmental factors of the children's home.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jpeds.2011.01.049
DO - 10.1016/j.jpeds.2011.01.049
M3 - Article
C2 - 21392787
AN - SCOPUS:79958752317
SN - 0022-3476
VL - 159
SP - 14-20.e1
JO - Journal of Pediatrics
JF - Journal of Pediatrics
IS - 1
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