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Associations of physical activity with childhood asthma, a population study based on the WHO - health behaviour in school-aged children survey

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Title
Associations of physical activity with childhood asthma, a population study based on the WHO - health behaviour in school-aged children survey
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Asthma Research and Practice, April 2018
DOI 10.1186/s40733-018-0042-9
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Lene Lochte, Poul Erik Petersen, Kim G. Nielsen, Anette Andersen, Thomas A. E. Platts-Mills

Abstract

Asthma in paediatric populations is one of the highest public health concerns. In this study of children and adolescents, we hypothesized that low levels of physical activity (PA) would show associations with asthma that vary by asthma outcome. The objective was to assess whether PA was associated with ever asthma and/or current asthma. Analyses were based on 4824 Danish schoolchildren aged 11-15 years old (48.7% boys) participating in the HBSC survey. The study variables were (1) physician-diagnosed asthma (ever asthma) and (2) physician-diagnosed asthma plus wheezing and/or physician or hospital consultation for wheezing (current asthma). Associations with PA by gender were analysed with multivariate logistic regression using the "variance covariance (vce) cluster" method. The prevalence of ever asthma was 14.3% (boys) and 12.8% (girls), and that of current asthma was 6.8% (boys) and 7.0% (girls). Boys with current asthma showed important differences in low and high PA. We found inverse associations between low PA and ever asthma, odds ratio [95% confidence interval] male: .55 [.30; .99] and female: .47 [.24; .93], and current asthma, male: .27 [.12; .60] (P linear trend = .007) and female: .32 [.11; .94]. The lowest activity levels showed significant inverse associations with asthma, regardless of the definition. For boys, the more stringent (current asthma) of the two paediatric asthma definitions revealed a significant trend with PA, and the direction of associations shifted to positive as weekly PA increased.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 31 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 5 16%
Student > Bachelor 4 13%
Student > Postgraduate 4 13%
Lecturer 2 6%
Other 2 6%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 11 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 10%
Sports and Recreations 2 6%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 14 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 May 2018.
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#14,326,716
of 23,045,021 outputs
Outputs from Asthma Research and Practice
#65
of 82 outputs
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#183,460
of 325,398 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Asthma Research and Practice
#2
of 4 outputs
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