Miethe, Sarah; Guarino, Maria; Alhamdan, Fahd; Simon, Hans-Uwe; Renz, Harald; Dufour, Jean-François; Potaczek, Daniel P; Garn, Holger (2018). Effects of obesity on asthma: immunometabolic links. Polish archives of internal medicine, 128(7-8), pp. 469-477. Medycyna Praktyczna, Kraków, Poland 10.20452/pamw.4304
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Asthma is a widespread chronic inflammatory disease, which has a highly heterogeneous etiopathogenesis, with predominance of either T‑helper cell type 2 (Th2; type 2) or non-Th2 (non-type 2) mechanisms. Together with cardiovascular or autoimmune diseases, obesity, and others, asthma belongs to so called noncommunicable diseases, a group of disorders with immunometabolic links as underlying mechanisms. So far, obesity and asthma have been considered mostly independently, but there are clear signs of relevant interactions. First, obese patients are at increased risk of asthma or asthma‑like symptoms. Second, asthma accompanied by obesity is more severe and more difficult to treat. A specific phenotype called obesity‑associated asthma has been also described, which is late‑onset, rather severe, non-type 2‑driven disease, present mostly in women. In addition, obesity can coincide with asthma also in children, and, although obesity generally skews the Th1/Th2 balance towards Th1, it can also accompany type 2‑driven asthma. However, those combinations represent less precisely defined disease entities. Despite a substantial increase in our knowledge on the mechanisms mediating the effects of obesity on the development of asthma in several recent years, still much needs to be done, especially on the molecular level.
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Journal Article (Review Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gastro-intestinal, Liver and Lung Disorders (DMLL) > Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine > Hepatology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > BioMedical Research (DBMR) > DBMR Forschung Mu35 > Forschungsgruppe Hepatologie 04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > BioMedical Research (DBMR) > DBMR Forschung Mu35 > Forschungsgruppe Hepatologie 04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Pharmacology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Guarino, Maria, Simon, Hans-Uwe, Dufour, Jean-François |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
0032-3772 |
Publisher: |
Medycyna Praktyczna, Kraków, Poland |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Celine Joray |
Date Deposited: |
05 Sep 2018 16:56 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:17 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.20452/pamw.4304 |
PubMed ID: |
30057383 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.119830 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/119830 |
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