title: Obesity and asthma: the role of environmental pollutants.
abstract: Air pollution is a well-known risk for lung diseases, including asthma. Growing evidences suggesting air pollution as a novel risk factor for the development of obesity. Several Epidemiological studies have ascertained an association between various ambient and indoor air pollutants and obesity by medium of endocrine disruptive chemicals that can disrupt the normal development and homeostatic controls over adipogenesis and energy balance and induce obesity. Several obesity-induced mechanisms have been proposed that increases this vulnerability of obese individuals to harmful effects of air pollution rendering them more susceptible to developing air-pollution driven incident asthma or worsening of already existing asthma.
authors.affiliation: Chest Research Foundation, Marigold Premises, Survey No 15, Vadgaonsheri, Kalyaninagar, Pune 411 014, India. Electronic address: snehalimaye@crfindia.com.
authors.forename: Sneha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Limaye
authors.affiliation: Chest Research Foundation, Marigold Premises, Survey No 15, Vadgaonsheri, Kalyaninagar, Pune 411 014, India.
authors.forename: Sundeep
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salvi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001249:Asthma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D015992:Body Mass Index; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D009947:Organotin Compounds / Q000009:adverse effects; D015995:Prevalence; D014481:United States; D014944:World Health Organization
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D009947:Organotin Compounds
keywords: Air pollution; Endocrine disruptors; Obesity; Obesogens