Word: asthma
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...People have noticed that asthmatics tend to be more overweight," Camargo said. "There has not been much discussion that obesity causes asthma...
Camargo said he began researching the subject in 1996. "We were looking at many risk factors for asthma and [obesity] was one that occurred...
...study, released last week, showed that the more overweight children are, the more likely they are to develop asthma...
...research has not uncovered substantive evidence that weight loss will alleviate asthma, though Camargo hypothesized that in certain cases it might...
...Just speculating, I would guess that asthma caused by obesity will be more likely to go away [with weight loss] than that which is not," he said...