Population-based weight loss and gain do not explain trends in asthma mortality in Cuba: a prospective study from 1964 to 2014

Background The increase in prevalence of obesity is a possible risk factor for asthma in developed countries. As the people of Cuba experienced an acute population-based decrease in weight in the 1990s, we tested the hypothesis that national weight loss and subsequent weight gain was associated a...

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Main Authors: Suárez-Medina, Ramon, Venero-Fernández, Silvia Josefina, Britton, John, Fogarty, Andrew W.
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35224/