CV Lattes
ORCID
Abstract
Obesity is a risk factor for asthma worsening, a lung chronic inflammatory disease that affects about 334 million people worldwide. Comorbidity asthma and obesity is characterized by neutrophil infiltration in the airways, which is associated with a severe asthma phenotype with low responsiveness to corticosteroids. The mechanisms involved in the asthma exacerbation that occurs with obesi…