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SUBMITTER: Maltz L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5266754 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maltz Lisa L Matz Ethan L EL Gordish-Dressman Heather H Pillai Dinesh K DK Teach Stephen J SJ Camargo Carlos A CA Hubal Monica J MJ Behniwal Simran S Prosper Guy D GD Certner Nicole N Marwah Raman R Mansell Douglas M DM Nwachukwu Fisayo F Lazaroff Risa R Tsegaye Yodit Y Freishtat Robert J RJ
Pediatric pulmonology 20160115 9
<h4>Introduction</h4>The association between obesity and asthma control/quality of life commonly relies on body mass index (BMI) as the anthropomorphic measure. Due to limitations of BMI and the existence of alternative measures, such as neck circumference (NC), we examined the association between NC and asthma control/quality of life, with particular attention to male-female differences.<h4>Materials and methods</h4>The AsthMaP-2 Project is an observational study of youth with physician-diagnos ...[more]