Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics
We enrolled 170 consecutive subjects with asthma aged three to 10 who presented to our clinic. Among these, 114 (67.1%) were of normal body weight while 56 (33%) were found to be overweight or obese. No statistically significant difference was observed between sociodemographic characteristics such as age, sex, gestational age at birth and birth weight (p = 0.64, p = 0.62, p = 0.36, p = 0.58 respectively) (Table 1).
Family history was remarkable for allergic diseases in 67,5% of the normal weight and 62.5% of the overweight/obese group (p=0.51). Smoking history among the family members was not significantly different among the groups (61.1% in the normal weight vs 60.7% in the overweight/obese, p=0.96).