Obese Children More Likely To Develop Asthma, Study Finds
A recent Kaiser Permanente study found that children in Southern California were 18% more likely to develop asthma if they were overweight or obese. For the study -- which was published in the medical journal Obesity -- researchers examined the electronic health records of 681,000 children covered by Kaiser between the ages of 6 and 19. Payers & Providers.
- "Kaiser Finds Pediatric Asthma Link" (Payers & Providers, 3/1).