Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics
We enrolled 170 consecutive subjects with asthma aged three to 10 who
presented to our clinic. Among these, 114 (67.1%) were of normal body
weight while 56 (33%) were found to be overweight or obese. No
statistically significant difference was observed between
sociodemographic characteristics such as age, sex, gestational age at
birth and birth weight (p = 0.64, p = 0.62, p = 0.36, p = 0.58
respectively) (Table 1).
Family history was remarkable for allergic diseases in 67,5% of the
normal weight and 62.5% of the overweight/obese group (p=0.51). Smoking
history among the family members was not significantly different among
the groups (61.1% in the normal weight vs 60.7% in the
overweight/obese, p=0.96).