Obesity, Large Waist Size Risk Factors for COPD
DrOshidar • May 23, 2024
Obesity, especially excessive belly fat, is a risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Excessive belly fat and low physical activity are linked to progression of the disease in people with COPD, but it is not known whether these modifiable factors are linked to new cases.
Gundula Behrens, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, and colleagues looked at the relationship of waist and hip circumference, body mass index (BMI), and physical activity levels to new cases of COPD in a large group of men and women in the US. They looked at data on 113,279 people aged 50 to 70 years who did not have COPD, cancer or heart disease at the beginning of the study (1995).
During the 10-year follow-up period, COPD developed in 3648 people. People with large waist circumference (≥110 cm in women and ≥118 cm in men) had a 72% increased risk of COPD.
“We observed a stronger positive relation with abdominal body fat than with total body fat and COPD,” the authors wrote. “In particular, overweight as measured by BMI emerged as a significant predictor of increased risk of COPD only among those with a large waist circumference.”
A large waist was a robust predictor of COPD in smokers as well as in people who had never smoked.
Pollution, smoking and toxic particles in workplace dust are thought to cause COPD through chronic inflammation and impaired ability to heal injury to the lungs.
“Increased local, abdominal, and overall fat depots increase local and systemic inflammation, thus potentially stimulating COPD-related processes in the lung,” the authors wrote.
People with a large hip circumference and who were physically active at least 5 times a week were 29% less likely to experience COPD. Exercise can reduce inflammation, oxidative stress and enhance healing.
Underweight people had a 56% increased risk of COPD. Possible reasons include malnutrition and reduced muscle mass leading to increased COPD susceptibility and progression through inflammatory processes and impaired lung repair capacity.
“Our findings suggest that next to smoking cessation and the prevention of smoking initiation, meeting guidelines for body weight, body shape and physical activity level may represent important individual and public health opportunities to decrease the risk of COPD,” the authors concluded. “Physicians should encourage their patients to adhere to these guidelines as a means of preventing chronic diseases in general and possibly COPD in particular.”
SOURCE: Canadian Medical Association Journal
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