Title |
Multifactorial intervention for children with asthma and overweight (Mikado): study design of a randomised controlled trial
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Published in |
BMC Public Health, May 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-13-494 |
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Authors |
Maartje Willeboordse, Kim DG van de Kant, Maroeska N de Laat, Onno CP van Schayck, Sandra Mulkens, Edward Dompeling |
Abstract |
In children, the prevalence's of both obesity and asthma are disconcertingly high. Asthmatic children with obesity are characterised by less asthma control and a high need for asthma medication. As the obese asthmatic child is becoming more common in the clinical setting and the disease burden of the asthma-obesity phenotype is high, there is an increasing need for effective treatment in these children. In adults, weight reduction resulted in improved lung function, better asthma control and less need for asthma medication. In children this is hardly studied. The Mikado study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a long term multifactorial weight reduction intervention, on asthma characteristics in children with asthma and a high body weight. |
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