Vangeepuram Nita, Teitelbaum Susan L, Galvez Maida P, Brenner Barbara, Doucette John, Wolff Mary S
Department of Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1512, New York, NY 10029, USA.
J Obes. 2011;2011:517417. doi: 10.1155/2011/517417. Epub 2011 May 10.
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 BMI percentile with asthma diagnosis. Poisson regression models were used to compute prevalence ratios (PRs) for sex-specific quintiles of the body fat measures on the main outcome of asthma. Results. When comparing the highest quintile of each body fat measure to the combined lowest two quintiles, higher body mass index percentile, percent body fat, and waist circumference all were associated with a higher likelihood of physician-diagnosed asthma (PR = 1.63 (95% CI 1.12-2.39), 1.50 (95% CI 1.02-2.21), and 1.56 (95% CI 1.04-2.34), resp.). Conclusions. This study found a significant association between increased body size and asthma diagnosis, regardless of the measurement examined.
目的。本研究的目的是探讨少数民族儿童不同身体尺寸测量值与哮喘之间的关系。方法。我们使用了一项基于社区的对505名6至8岁儿童的研究数据，以研究体脂百分比、脂肪分布和BMI百分位数与哮喘诊断之间的关联。使用泊松回归模型计算体脂测量值按性别划分的五分位数与哮喘主要结局之间的患病率比（PRs）。结果。当将每种体脂测量值的最高五分位数与合并的最低两个五分位数进行比较时，较高的体重指数百分位数、体脂百分比和腰围均与医生诊断哮喘的可能性较高相关（PR分别为1.63（95%CI 1.12 - 2.39）、1.50（95%CI 1.02 - 2.21）和1.56（95%CI 1.04 - 2.34））。结论。本研究发现，无论所检查的测量指标如何，身体尺寸增加与哮喘诊断之间存在显著关联。
