Obese individuals experience wheezing without asthma but not asthma without wheezing: a Mendelian ra...
Obese individuals experience wheezing without asthma but not asthma without wheezing: a Mendelian randomisation study of 85 437 adults from the Copenhagen General Population Study
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
England: BMJ Publishing Group LTD
Journal title
Language
English
Formats
Publication information
Publisher
England: BMJ Publishing Group LTD
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
BackgroundObservational studies suggest that obesity is associated with increased risk of asthma. However, it is unknown whether this could be explained by wheezing. We tested the hypothesis that high body mass index (BMI) observationally and genetically is associated with high risk of wheezing and asthma, and that the association between high BMI...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Obese individuals experience wheezing without asthma but not asthma without wheezing: a Mendelian randomisation study of 85 437 adults from the Copenhagen General Population Study
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Record Identifier
TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1765917969
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1765917969
Other Identifiers
ISSN
0040-6376
E-ISSN
1468-3296
DOI
10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207379
