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Do Obese Inner-City Children With Asthma Have More Symptoms Than Nonobese Children With Asthma?

Peter F. Belamarich, Elisabeth Luder, Meyer Kattan, Herman Mitchell, Shaheen Islam, Henry Lynn, Ellen F. Crain

PEDIATRICS · 2000 · 192 citations · 2 references

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Abstract

In our sample of inner-city children with asthma, obese children used more medicine, wheezed more, and a greater proportion had unscheduled ED visits than the nonobese children.

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