Published online June 1, 2007
PEDIATRICS Vol. 119 No. 6 June 2007, pp. 1247-1248 (doi:10.1542/peds.2007-0422)
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Asthma as a Barrier to Children's Physical Activity

Daniel J. Weiner, MD
Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Joe McDonough, MS
Julian Allen, MD
Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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To the Editor.—

We read with interest the recent report from Glazebrook et al.1 They found a high prevalence of obesity (21.4%) in their population of outpatients with asthma and that asthma acted as a barrier to exercise in these children. We performed a retrospective review of a pulmonary-function database maintained at our institution (1988–2005), which we think lends an interesting additional perspective to the findings of Glazebrook et al. Within this database, 1095 children with a diagnosis of asthma were referred for testing. The BMI was calculated and categorized as normal (5th–85th percentile), overweight (85th–95th percentile), or obese (>95th percentile). We found that in this population . . . [Full Text of this Article]