introduction: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) patients are at increased risk of sleep-disorders. the concomitant occurrence of copd and obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (osahs) is named overlap syndrome. this study aimed to evaluate the severity of osahs in overlap syndrome patients.materials & methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on adult patients with forced...

obesity has been reported to be associated with an increase in asthma in children. if there is any association, it could be attributed to an effect of obesity on lung volume and thus airway’s obstruction. data from 2413 children aged 7–12 years in isfahan were analyzed. the subjects were included in this study if data were available for: height, weight, age, lung volume, and any measure of asth...

background :asthma is the most common respiratory disease with an increasing prevalence. on the other hand, obesity is also a challenging disease compromising health in human communities. this study sought to assess the correlation of asthma and body mass index (bmi) in occupational setting.   methods : this study was conducted in a cable manufacturing company in 2012. a total of 551 workers fr...

Objective: Nowadays the value of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) in the estimation of body adiposity both on a clinical basis in the individual and epidemiologically in large populations is of great interest. The current study determine accuracy of BIA compared with body mass index (BMI) measurement for estimating body composition in a group of normal weight employee women with a sedenta...