Obese Patients Easily Affected Asthma

NEW YORK - The owner of overweight let alone obese people at risk of many diseases, one of which is shortness of breath or asthma. Not only that, doctors in Canada also find it difficult to diagnose whether they have asthma or lung disease because sufferers often experience similar symptoms.

A study in the journal of Canada says the doctor could not tell when a patient was diagnosed with obesity than people in general. But, research has shown that the past, spirometry, standardized tests of lung function, not used as often as they should in asthma diagnosing, Dr. Smita Pakhale said Ottawa Hospital in Ontario, Canada, which sparked a new discovery.

''Asthma should be diagnosed based on symptoms and lung-function testing and the second this could be a factor in the error diagnosis in this study. Pakhale told to Reuters Health News last week - although, he adds, it's just speculation.

Pakhale also showed that high-risk obese adults experience health problems that can cause asthma-like symptoms and shortness of breath chest. It was included in the group with low fitness levels, reflux of acid and high heart disease.

Pakhale said they knew someone who had asthma after being released from the emergency room or medical clinics, should immediately undergo further treatment by primary physicians. In order, he added, they can obtain additional testing or evaluation, which could reveal the cause of truth, when if it was not asthma.

The study involved 496 adults randomly selected from eight Canadian cities that have been diagnosed with asthma. Most of them are obese - a nickname obesity patients - and the rest, a small part of normal body weight.

Overall, lung function tests confirmed 70 percent of participants diagnosed with asthma. Of this amount both men and women, respectively, had undergone emergency treatment-related respiratory problems in the past year.

Obese participants who did not have asthma, as many 21 percent, it has also been urged to seek treatment for respiratory symptoms in the last year. While the percentage of respiratory symptoms and asthma symptoms in men and women of normal body weight less than 10 percent.