Background. Bronchial asthma and excessive body weight or obesity is a pressing problem. The literature review describes the main aspects of the relationship of asthma on the background of overweight and obesity and their influence on each other and the way of correction of infringements. Well known that bronchial asthma and excessive body weight or obesity are related in basic pathogenesis and aggravating the course of one another. Availability of excessive body weight or obese in patients reduces the level of asthma control, which in turn leads to an increase in asthma therapy, which eventually increases the body weight. Auxiliary methods such as the use of magnesium and physical activity have an influence on the association of asthma and excessive body weight or obese, these methods are investigated in detail separately and are effective. There is also information on the positive impact of the use of magnesium and exercise in patients with a combination of asthma and excessive body weight or obese.
Objective: to study the magnesium level in children with asthma who are overweight or obese.
Methods. The study involved 40 patients (aged 6 to 11 years) with asthma of mild to moderate severity. 20 patients who formed the main group (children with asthma in combination with overweight or obese), 20 patients with asthma and harmonious physical development made a comparison group. The control group included 20 healthy children, without any somatic pathology on the background and harmonious physical development. All children underwent a study of the magnesium level in daily urine.
Results. There was a statistically significant decrease in the magnesium level in children with asthma in comparison with the control group.
Conclusions. Our study confirms the negative impact of magnesium deficiency in asthma control. We also started the correction of the deficit state in observed children and suspect to increase the level of asthma control.