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SUBMITTER: Jeong A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6406386 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jeong Ayoung A Imboden Medea M Ghantous Akram A Novoloaca Alexei A Carsin Anne-Elie AE Kogevinas Manolis M Schindler Christian C Lovison Gianfranco G Herceg Zdenko Z Cuenin Cyrille C Vermeulen Roel R Jarvis Deborah D Amaral André F S AFS Kronenberg Florian F Vineis Paolo P Probst-Hensch Nicole N
International journal of environmental research and public health 20190219 4
A high body mass (BMI) index has repeatedly been associated with non-atopic asthma, but the biological mechanism linking obesity to asthma is still poorly understood. We aimed to test the hypothesis that inflammation and/or innate immunity plays a role in the obesity-asthma link. DNA methylome was measured in blood samples of 61 non-atopic participants with asthma and 146 non-atopic participants without asthma (non-smokers for at least 10 years) taking part in the Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollu ...[more]