Open AccessPrevalence and Predictors of Metabolic Syndrome among Patients with Bronchial Asthma: A Cross Sectional Study
Author(s) -
Amal Ali
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the open respiratory medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 19
ISSN - 1874-3064
DOI - 10.2174/1874306402115010014
Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , metabolic syndrome , waist , abdominal obesity , obesity , anthropometry , epidemiology , cross sectional study , abnormality , logistic regression , pathology , psychiatry
Recent studies have reported the epidemiological link between Metabolic Syndrome (MS) and asthma, but it has rarely been studied in Egypt. The study aimed to investigate the prevalence of MS and its predictors among asthma patients in Egypt.