Sara Rosenkranz and her colleagues recruited 40 healthy children to fill out questionnaires about their activities and to undergo lung function and body composition tests. The children who had elevated levels of body fat and who reported low levels of physical exercise were more likely to have asthma-like symptoms after they exercised. None of the children had been diagnosed with asthma.
"Kids who are overweight and inactive are having - even at the age of 8 to 10 years old - a negative response to exercise challenge tests, which might be contributing to the increase that we have been seeing over the past several decades in asthma prevalence as well as obesity prevalence," Ms. Rosenkranz said.
Labels: inactivity, side-effects, asthma
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