ArticleThe journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice2024
Weight Loss Interventions for Adults With Obesity-Related Asthma.
Article in The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery for Patients with Obesity and Asthma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Obesity surgery · 2026Pooled it
- Respiratory Biologics Utilization, Prescription Predictors, and Outcomes in Patients With Asthma and Comorbid Overweight or Obesity.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2026Observational
- From Inflammation to Precision Medicine: Mechanistic Insights into Asthma, COPD, and IPF.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Pregnancy, asthma and exacerbations: a population-based cohort.The European respiratory journal · 2025Article
- Non-T2 asthma.Current opinion in pulmonary medicine · 2025Review
- Analysis of gender- and age-stratified asthma burden: forecasting prevalence trends in 2030.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Obesity-related Asthma: A Pathobiology-based Overview of Existing and Emerging Treatment Approaches.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2024Review
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Abstract
Obesity is a common asthma comorbidity in adults, contributing to higher patient morbidity and mortality. Conversely, weight loss can reduce the impact of obesity on asthma and improve patient outcomes by diverse mechanisms including modulating airway inflammation, reducing oxidative stress, and improving lung function. Multiple lifestyle, nonpharmacological, pharmacological, and surgical interventions are effective at reducing weight in the general population. Fewer have been studied specifically in the context of patients with asthma. However, increasingly effective pharmacologic options for weight loss highlight the need for allergists and pulmonologists to understand the range of approaches that may directly or indirectly yield clinical benefits in asthma management. Weight loss interventions often require multidisciplinary support to create strategies that can realistically achieve a patient's personalized asthma and weight goals. This includes minimizing the adverse weight effects of glucocorticoids, which remain a mainstay of asthma management. Disparities in access, cost, and insurance coverage of weight loss interventions remain acute challenges for providers and patients. Future studies are needed to elucidate mechanisms of action of specific weight loss interventions on short-term and long-term asthma outcomes.
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