Pathophysiology to Phenotype in the Asthma of Obesity.

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Obesity affects numerous diseases, including asthma, for reasons that remain incompletely understood. Recent research suggests that the asthma of obesity is not a single disease, and that it breaks out into at least two distinct phenotypes. One phenotype is conventional allergic asthma modulated by obesity, whereas another arises solely due to the presence of obesity. The latter is postulated to be a consequence...

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