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Bronchial hyperresponsiveness and obesity in middle age: insights from an Australian cohort
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Burgess, JA and Matheson, MC and Diao, F and Johns, DP and Erbas, B and Lowe, AJ and Gurrin, LC and Lodge, CJ and Thomas, PS and Morrison, S and Thompson, BR and Feather, I and Perret, JL and Abramson, MJ and Giless, GG and Hopper, JL and Dharmage, SC and Walters, EH, Bronchial hyperresponsiveness and obesity in middle age: insights from an Australian cohort, The European Respiratory Journal, 50, (3) pp. 1-10. ISSN 0903-1936 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1183/13993003.02181-2016
Abstract
The association between obesity and bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) is incompletely characterised. Using the 2006 follow-up of the Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study, we measured the association between obesity and BHR and whether it was mediated by small airway closure or modified by asthma and sex of the patient.A methacholine challenge measured BHR. Multivariable logistic regression measured associations between body mass index (BMI) and BHR, adjusting for sex, asthma, smoking, corticosteroid use, family history and lung function. Mediation by airway closure was also measured.Each increase in BMI of 1 kg·m-2 was associated with a 5% increase in the odds of BHR (OR 1.05, 95% CI 1.01-1.09) and 43% of this association was mediated by airway closure. In a multivariable model, BMI (OR 1.06, 95% CI 1.00-1.16) was associated with BHR independent of female sex (OR 3.26, 95% CI 1.95-5.45), atopy (OR 2.30, 95% CI 1.34-3.94), current asthma (OR 5.74, 95% CI 2.79-11.82), remitted asthma (OR 2.35, 95% CI 1.27-4.35), low socioeconomic status (OR 2.11, 95% CI 1.03-4.31) and forced expiratory volume in 1 s/forced vital capacity (OR 0.86, 95% CI 0.82-0.91). Asthma modified the association with an increasing probability of BHR as BMI increased, only in those with no or remitted asthma.An important fraction of the BMI/BHR association was mediated via airway closure. Conflicting findings in previous studies could be explained by failure to consider this intermediate step.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | bronchial hyperresponsiveness, obesity, asthma |
| Research Division: | Biomedical and Clinical Sciences |
| Research Group: | Cardiovascular medicine and haematology |
| Research Field: | Respiratory diseases |
| Objective Division: | Health |
| Objective Group: | Clinical health |
| Objective Field: | Clinical health not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Johns, DP (Associate Professor David Johns) |
| UTAS Author: | Dharmage, SC (Professor Shyamali Dharmage) |
| UTAS Author: | Walters, EH (Professor Haydn Walters) |
| ID Code: | 121366 |
| Year Published: | 2017 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 11 |
| Deposited By: | Medicine |
| Deposited On: | 2017-09-26 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-09-11 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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