Burger Eating Too Many Asthma Risk

PARIS - Burger was delicious, especially with a solid content of different toppings and sauce is thick. However, it should not be too often. In addition to risk of clogged arteries, a study to prove, burgers can increase the risk of asthma and shortness of breath, especially in children.

Conversely, in the same study led Gabriele Nagel from Ulm University in Germany, the Mediterranean diet - which is laden fruit, vegetables, and fish - although fatty foods, can help avoid asthma-related breathing problems. Research results published in the British Medical Journal.

Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children. The disease is often triggered by dust and allergies. Symptoms include heavy breathing and it usually sounds, chest pain, and respiratory tract to contract. Around the world, this disease affects about 300 million people and killed about 250 thousand per year, according to World Health Organization (WHO). For reasons that are still poorly understood, asthma has increased over the last 25 years, particularly in rich countries.

To assess the extent to which diet can be a factor for asthma, researchers led by Gabriele Nagel at Ulm University in Germany studied the health data at 50. thousand children aged eight to 12 years, collected between 1995 and 2005 from 20 rich and poor countries around the world. Parents are asked to describe what their children eat, and whether they had ever diagnosed asthma or severe shortness of breath.

Nearly 30 thousand of the children tested to see whether food and beverages have opportunities to develop allergies in the body. Diet did not appear to increase the sensitivity to common allergens, but it was correlated with the prevalence of asthma and wheezing.

And, this is it, boy-child who ate three or more hamburgers a week along with soft drinks to face a higher risk significantly. However, Nagel said, cannot call a burger as the sole and direct cause of the disease, due to lifestyle factors also contribute to its development. "This would explain why the burgers in poor countries not associated with the same level of risk," he said.

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Asthma can affect anyone. The study revealed that the disease increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. Asthma caused by chronic inflammation and persistent in the long term. Asthma comes from the Greek that means? Shortness of breath '.

Allergist immunologist from the Division of Allergy Immunology Clinic, Department of Medicine of the RSCM, Dr Iris Rengganis SpPD KAI, said asthma is a disease that attacks the respiratory tract to the lungs. "Asthma is a disease of airway constriction," he said.

Rengganis explained, asthma can be divided into two kinds. First, asthma kardial associated with cardiac abnormalities, and bronchial asthma is a respiratory illness.

Patients with extrinsic bronchial asthma, have hypersensitivity and hyperactivity of the various stimuli from the outside. "These external stimuli such as dust in the surrounding environment, weather, or smoke," said Rengganis who is also lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia.

The intrinsic bronchial asthma or non-allergic generally arise when the patient received psychological disorders, stress, strenuous exercise, and drastic weather changes. "So, all cases of asthma have caused and treatment vary, depending on the type of asthma that affects a person and not based on their gender," he said.

A study reported American cardiology journals reveal, asthma began to appear when someone growing up can increase the risk of heart attack and stroke in women. Uniquely, this did not occur in men.

Dr Stephen J Onufrak from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Stoneville, Mississippi, says, asthma that occur when an adult, like other sudden attacks disproportionately experienced by women, such as rheumatoid arthritis (rheumatoid arthritis) and lupus, can be a big risk for heart attack and stroke.

Onufrak and colleagues used data Atherosclerosis Risk study that examined the link between asthma, the risk of heart attack, and stroke by sex.

They found, compared to those without asthma, adult women who develop asthma have a 2.10 increase in heart attacks and 2.36 increase in stroke.

There is no connection between men who suffer from asthma in childhood or adulthood and a heart attack or stroke, with women who suffer from asthma and heart or stroke in childhood.

When this research have implications in treatment, Onufrak said, "I believe that these results need to be replicated in other group studies to provide more concrete recommendations."

Responding to these findings, Rengganis said, the study must be seen first case. Is asthma occurred in the lungs or the heart. "Actually the case has not been much going on. We must see the first real case," he said.

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