Role of body anthropometry in severe asthmatic patients: Evidences from the Severe Asthma Network in Italy (SANI) registry.

15 In addition, although not statistically significant, we observed an increasing trend of exacerbations requiring OCS in obese patients, while no significant differences about OCS therapy were reported between the different subgroups.

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Our findings are similar to the British Thoracic Society Difficult Asthma Registry, which observed a decreasing trend in prevalence of CRSwNP among obese patients with severe asthma, even if in that case only 10 of them suffered from CRSwNP. 18 In our study we did not find any significant differences concerning allergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis and ASA/NSAID hypersensitivity between obese and non-obese patients.

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