Children With Obesity At Age 7 Years Are More Susceptible To Asthma Disease
Posted by: chickenfoodrecipes / Category: body healthChildren who are obese at age 7 years are more susceptible to asthma disease than children whose weight has gone down at that age. This was disclosed by the researchers writing in the journal Pediatrics.
At this age, children should get special attention to prevent some diseases that will attack them.
The researchers found that more than two thousand children in Sweden at the age of eight years, or had obesity at age seven years, is very susceptible to asthma attacks, than those whose bodies were thinner.
Meanwhile, children under five, although overweight, not susceptible to asthma, as well as children under five slender.
Jessica Magnusson of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, the leader of the study stated,
“Body Mass Index (BMI) is high, during the first four years of human life does not increase the risk of asthma, in children, before the age of it the risk began to be felt,” wrote Jessica Magnusson.
