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Obesity Does Not Increase the Risk of Asthma Readmissions

2020; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 9; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/jcm9010221

2077-0383

Francisco Javier González‐Barcala, Juan José Nieto‐Fontarigo, Tamara Lourido-Cebreiro, Carlota Rodríguez‐García, Maria-Esther San-Jose, José M. Carreira, Uxío Calvo-Álvarez, María Jesús Cruz, David Facal, María-Teresa García-Sanz, Luís Valdés, Francisco J. Salgado,

IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways

The relationship between obesity and asthma exacerbations is still under debate. The aim of our work is to analyse the relationship between obesity and hospital re-admissions in asthmatics. A review was retrospectively performed on all hospital admissions of adult patients due to asthma exacerbation occurring in our hospital for 11 years. All those cases with asthma as the first diagnosis in the discharge report were included, or those with asthma as the second diagnosis provided when the first diagnosis was respiratory infection or respiratory failure. Only the first hospital admission of each patient was included in this study. The Odds Ratios of a higher incidence of early/late readmissions due to asthma exacerbation were calculated using a binary logistic regression, using the body mass index (BMI) as independent variable, adjusted for all the variables included in the study. The study included 809 patients with a mean age of 55.6 years, and 65.2% were female. The majority (71.4%) were obese or overweight. No significant relationship was observed in the univariate or multivariate analyses between overweight or obesity and the early or late hospital readmissions due to asthma. Therefore, obesity does not seem to be a determining factor in the risk of asthma exacerbations.