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Thomsen, S.F., et al. - Obesity is linked to asthma in a yet poorly understood manner. We examined the relationship between obesity and asthma in a population-based sample of twins...Conclusions: Obese subjects have an increased risk for asthma, which in females seems partly because of common genes

   

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