Childhood obesity in pediatric patients with difficult-to-control asthma in a tertiary pediatric subspecialty clinic.

Background: Identifying clinical features associated with difficult-to-control asthma will help address overall control and more-effective asthma management.

Objective: To evaluate our clinical observation that the proportion of patients who are overweight or obese is significantly higher in patients with difficult-to-control asthma than in patients with well-controlled asthma.

Methods: This was a retrospective chart review of 400 patients, ages 5 to 18 years.