title: Relationship Between Obesity and Asthma Control in Children Aged 4-18 years.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the relationship between obesity and asthma control in a group of patients with asthma.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this prospective study, body mass index (BMI) values of 200 asthma patients aged 4-18 y who had been regularly followed up by Kartal Education and Research Hospital Pediatric Asthma Outpatient Clinic were calculated. Asthma control test (ACT) and asthma control questionnaire (ACQ) were performed. The degrees of asthma control were evaluated with regard to BMI values in consideration of the data obtained.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The lowest and the highest BMI values were 12.4 and 30.0 kg/m(2), respectively (mean 18.1 ± 2.9). Of the total 200 children, 110 were boys and 90 were girls. It was found that 17 % of the patients were overweight and 16 % obese. ACT results showed that 72 patients had controlled asthma, 102 patients had partially controlled asthma and 26 patients had uncontrolled asthma. According to ACQ results, 165 patients had controlled asthma, 17 patients had partially controlled asthma and 18 patients had uncontrolled asthma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Thus, it was found that there was no statistically significant difference between asthma control degrees of obese and non-obese patients. In other words, obesity did not affect the asthma control level.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Education and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Adem
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yaşar
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Lütfi Kırdar Kartal Education and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yasemin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Akın
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Chest Diseases, Marmara University Pendik Education and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Bülent
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Karadağ
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Lütfi Kırdar Kartal Education and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Belma
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yaşar
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Education and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey. mkaraci@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Karacı
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001249:Asthma / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy*; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications*; D050177:Overweight; D011446:Prospective Studies
keywords: Asthma; Asthma control questionnaire (ACQ); Asthma control test (ACT); Obesity