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If you are clinically obese, you are 5 times more likely to be hospitalized for asthma than normal weight people. This study also made some other interesting observations:
Obese people with asthma were younger and less educated than non-obese patients with asthma
Obese people with asthma used more cortico-steroids than non-obese patients with asthma
Obese people with asthma had more incidences of gastro-esophageal reflux disorders than non-obese people with asthma
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