Cell Linking Obesity and Asthma Discovered

Treating obesity will be tantamount to treating asthma if this discovery about the immune system cells, known as Th2 cells, that links the two conditions yields more favorable results.

Although some speculate that asthma causes obesity because of having to resort to a more sedentary lifestyle, weight gain, or the increase in body mass index or BMI, happens even before asthma develops, which strengthened the link between asthma and obesity.

This linkage made researchers follow through their study about Th2 cells, which inflames the lungs and produces protein that affects the appetite of a person.

The significance of this study is for asthmatic people to improve their condition.

Read full report.

[image from Lara Ferroni]

Tags: cell, obesity, asthma, research, discovery, BMI