Asthma may be linked to increased incidence of diabetes, heart disease

(Source: Endocrine Today, 24 March 2011)
Asthmatics were more than twice as likely to develop diabetes mellitus as non-asthmatics, according to findings presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology in San Francisco. The retrospective population-based study aimed to evaluate potential associations between asthma and proinflammatory conditions, including inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes and coronary artery disease, in 2,392 patients with asthma and 4,784 matched controls. Read more