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Association between asthma and obesity in the University of Washington Twin Registry. The prevalence of asthma was assessed according to 7 categories of BMI. The association of asthma and obesity was assessed in each sex by using mixed-effects ordinal regression. The prevalence of asthma increased with greater BMI in women (P < .001) and marginally in men (P = .07).
