Obesity, sedentary lifestyle, and exhaled nitric oxide in an early adolescent cohort
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Bess M. Flashner MD
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Correspondence Bess M. Flashner, MD, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA, 02215.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorSheryl L. Rifas-Shiman MPH
Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Search for more papers by this authorEmily Oken MD MPH
Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Search for more papers by this authorCarlos A. Camargo Jr. MD, DrPH
Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Search for more papers by this authorThomas J. Platts-Mills MD
Department of Allergy and Immunology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia
Search for more papers by this authorLisa Workman BA
Department of Allergy and Immunology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia
Search for more papers by this authorAugusto A. Litonjua MD, MPH
Pediatric Pulmonary Division, Department of Pediatrics, Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
Search for more papers by this authorDiane R. Gold MD, MPH
Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
Search for more papers by this authorMary B. Rice MD, MPH
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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Bess M. Flashner MD
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Correspondence Bess M. Flashner, MD, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA, 02215.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorSheryl L. Rifas-Shiman MPH
Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Search for more papers by this authorEmily Oken MD MPH
Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Search for more papers by this authorCarlos A. Camargo Jr. MD, DrPH
Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Search for more papers by this authorThomas J. Platts-Mills MD
Department of Allergy and Immunology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia
Search for more papers by this authorLisa Workman BA
Department of Allergy and Immunology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia
Search for more papers by this authorAugusto A. Litonjua MD, MPH
Pediatric Pulmonary Division, Department of Pediatrics, Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
Search for more papers by this authorDiane R. Gold MD, MPH
Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
Search for more papers by this authorMary B. Rice MD, MPH
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) is a marker of airway inflammation that is well-characterized in allergic disease states. However, FeNO is also involved in nonallergic inflammatory and pulmonary vascular mechanisms or responses to environmental stimuli. We sought to determine the extent to which obesity or sedentary lifestyle is associated with FeNO in adolescents not selected on the basis of allergic disease. In Project Viva, a prebirth cohort study, we measured body mass index (BMI), skinfold thicknesses, waist circumference, body fat, hours watching television, hours of physical activity, and heart rate after exercise among 929 adolescents (median age, 12.9). We measured FeNO twice and averaged these as a continuous, log-transformed outcome. We performed linear regression models, adjusted for child age, sex, height, and race/ethnicity, maternal education and smoking during pregnancy, household income and smoking, and neighbourhood characteristics. In secondary analysis, we additionally adjusted for asthma. More than 2 hours spent watching TV was associated with 10% lower FeNO (95% confidence interval [CI]: −20, 0%). Higher body fat percentage was also associated with lower FeNO. After additional adjustment for asthma, teens who are underweight (BMI <5th %tile, 3%) had 22% lower FeNO (95%CI: −40, 2%) and teens who are overweight (BMI ≥85th %ile, 28%) had 13% lower FeNO (95%CI: −23, −2%). Each of these associations of lifestyle and body weight with lower FeNO were greater in magnitude after adjusting for asthma. In summary, sedentary lifestyle, high and low BMI were all associated with lower FeNO in this adolescent cohort.
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