Correlation between eosinophil count, its genetic background and body mass index: The Nagahama Study

Background: Obesity affects the pathogenesis of various chronic diseases, including asthma. Research on correlations between obesity/BMI and eosinophilic inflammation in asthma has yielded contradictory results, which could be partly ascribed to the absence of epidemiological data on the correlation...

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Main Authors: Hironobu Sunadome, Hisako Matsumoto, Yumi Izuhara, Tadao Nagasaki, Yoshihiro Kanemitsu, Yumi Ishiyama, Chie Morimoto, Tsuyoshi Oguma, Isao Ito, Kimihiko Murase, Shigeo Muro, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Yasuharu Tabara, Kazuo Chin, Fumihiko Matsuda, Toyohiro Hirai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:Allergology International
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1323893019300802