%0 Journal Article
%T Severe asthma is associated with metabolic syndrome in Brazilian adolescents
%A Ant£¿nio Jos¨¦ Ledo Alves da Cunha
%A Dirceu Sol¨¦
%A Erica Azevedo de Oliveira Costa Jord£¿o
%A F¨¢bio Chigres Kuschnir
%A K¨¢tia Vergetti Bloch
%A Mara Morelo Rocha Felix
%A Maria Cristina Caetano Kuschnir
%A Moyses Szklo
%J Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
%D 2018
%R 10.1016/j.jaci.2018.01.026
%X Asthma is a serious health problem in developing countries, with increasing prevalence
over the last decades, especially among children and adolescents.1 In Brazil, according
to the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood, the prevalence of
active asthma in children aged 6 to 7£¿years and adolescents aged 13 to 14£¿years was,
respectively, 24.3% and 19%, one of the highest among Latin American countries.2
%U https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(18)30211-2/abstract