Someone who has a wide waist circumference was also at increased risk of asthma.

Women who have problems of obesity, high risk of asthma. Then, someone who has a normal body weight but the size of his stomach is very wide circle also at increased risk of asthma.

It is known from studies conducted by a team from the Northern California Cancer Center. The research team revealed that obese women are more at risk of asthma compared with women who have normal weight but abdominal circumference of more than 34 inches or 88 cm.

“Obesity can make asthma symptoms experienced by patients getting worse,” said one researcher, Julia Von Behrentold, such as quotes from Genius VIVAnews Beauty, Thursday, November 5, 2009.

The study involved 88,304 women who are obese. Some of these women had to undergo intensive treatment when experience asthma attack. Then, as many as 13 percent of women have body mass index (BMI) of 30 and 1.5 percent have a BMI of 40. BMI’s size can be used as a benchmark to determine a person are obese or not.

Any registration numbers BMI, for the obese woman should see her doctor. Not only the risk of heart disease but also very high risk of asthma. Regular exercise and implement a healthy diet is the most appropriate solution to avoid obesity.

Large waist Women, Vulnerable Asthma

Large waist not only ruin the appearance. The women big waist, it is also more vulnerable to asthma. A study in California trying to express the link between obesity and asthma.

Previously, the connection between the two is often observed. In a study published in the journal Thorax, there are more specific findings that relate not only obesity, but obesity and asthma in the waist. The study involving 88,000 female respondents. Of these, 37 percent of them have asthma because they have a waist size above normal, but they are not overweight.

This study was part of the research on the factors of breast cancer spread does Northern California Cancer Center. In this study data was also obtained respondents as waist circumference and body weight. From the data that was found in suspected link between waist circumference and asthma. A researcher from the Northern California Cancer Center, Julie von Behren, said that the women who weigh over bodymass standard index (BMI) had asthma.

Still according to the study, fat around the stomach area was an important role to increase the risk of asthma. “The size of the waist can be indicators of whether he was overweight,” said Von Behren.

According to him, the soft area around the stomach very easily happen fat deposition. Accumulation of fat in this area are also often linked as a trigger to diabetes and heart attacks.

Doktor Alejandro Arroliga, Chief Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Clinic in Temple, Texas, welcomed the results of the study.

“This is a large study involving 88,000 people. It’s amazing,” he said. However, he hoped that links two more specifically described.