Obesity and asthma: obesity causes and aggravates asthma across the entire type-2 inflammation spectrum.

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Obesity affects more than 650 million adults worldwide, with prevalence continuing to rise across all age groups and continents. This trend has important implications for asthma: individuals with obesity have a 30-50% higher risk of developing asthma, and obesity is highly prevalent among people with established disease. Mean body mass index in clinical trials and registries of adults with asthma consistently...

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