Cardiorespiratory fitness, adiposity, and incident asthma in adults

[...]the main logistic regression models were also adjusted for FEV1 to examine how pulmonary function could affect the associations of fitness and fatness with asthma. Â Men (N = 7712) Women (N = 2098) All (N = 9810) Age (y) 46.0 (9.5) 45.7 (10.3) 45.9 (9.7) Height (cm) 178.6 (6.4) 164.3 (6.0) 175....

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Published in:Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2010, Vol.125 (1), p.271-273.e5
Main Authors: Ortega, Francisco B., PhD, Lee, Duck-chul, PhD, Sui, Xuemei, MD, Ruiz, Jonatan R., PhD, Cheng, Yiling J., PhD, Church, Timothy J., PhD, Miller, Charles C., PhD, Blair, Steven N., PED
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Language:English
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Adiposity
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Allergy and Immunology
Asthma - epidemiology
Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena
Female
Humans
Incidence
Male
Medicin och hälsovetenskap
Men
Middle Aged
Older people
Physical Fitness
Studies
Young Adult
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Summary:[...]the main logistic regression models were also adjusted for FEV1 to examine how pulmonary function could affect the associations of fitness and fatness with asthma.  Men (N = 7712) Women (N = 2098) All (N = 9810) Age (y) 46.0 (9.5) 45.7 (10.3) 45.9 (9.7) Height (cm) 178.6 (6.4) 164.3 (6.0) 175.5 (8.6) Weight (kg) 82.1 (11.9) 60.8 (9.3) 77.6 (14.4) Body mass index (kg/m2) 25.7 (3.3) 22.5 (3.2) 25.0 (3.5) BF% 20.6 (6.4) 26.6 (6.8) 21.9 (7.0) Normal-fat 5822 (75.5) 1440 (68.6) 7262 (74.0) Overfat 1890 (24.5) 658 (31.4) 2548 (26.0) VO2max (mL/kg/min) 41.8 (8.8) 33.9 (7.7) 40.1 (9.2) Treadmill time (min) 18.5 (5.0) 13.8 (4.7) 17.5 (5.3) Cardiorespiratory fitness levels    Low 892 (11.6) 183 (8.7) 1075 (11.0) Moderate 2850 (36.9) 736 (35.1) 3586 (36.5) High 3970 (51.5) 1179 (56.2) 5149 (52.5) Leisure time physical activity    Inactive 2045 (26.5) 523 (24.9) 2568 (26.2) Active 5667 (73.5) 1575 (75.1) 7242 (73.8) Smoking    Never smoker 3469 (45.0) 1260 (60.1) 4729 (48.2) Ex-smoker 3202 (41.5) 678 (32.3) 3880 (39.6) Current smoker 1041 (13.5) 160 (7.6) 1201 (12.2) Respiratory symptoms index[low *]    Presence 554 (7.2) 282 (13.4) 836 (8.5) Absence 7158 (92.8) 1816 (86.6) 8974 (91.5) [low *] Baseline characteristics of the participants Data are shown as mean (SD) for continuous variables and as frequency (%) for nominal variables.
ISSN:0091-6749
1097-6825
1097-6825
DOI:10.1016/j.jaci.2009.10.040