Overdiagnosis of asthma in obese and nonobese adults
Canadian Medical Association Journal2008Vol. 179(11), pp. 1121–1131
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Shawn D. Aaron, Katherine L. Vandemheen, L Boulet, Andrew McIvor, J. Mark FitzGerald, Paul Hernandez, Catherine Lemière, S. Sharma, Stephen K. Field, Gonzalo G. Alvarez, Robert Dales, Steve Doucette, Dean Fergusson
Abstract
About one-third of obese and nonobese individuals with physician-diagnosed asthma did not have asthma when objectively assessed. This finding suggests that, in developed countries such as Canada, asthma is overdiagnosed.
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