Obesity and asthma are important health issues and a positive association between
them has been reported [
1
,
2
,
3
]. However, the reports were mainly based on school-age children and there are few
reports to identify this associate among elderly people, especially Chinese elderly
people. We aimed to assess the consistency of the association among Chinese people
aged 60 and over through a cross-sectional study of 6283 participants.Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: July 20, 2016
Accepted:
July 8,
2016
Received:
July 7,
2016
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