TY - JOUR T1 - The effect of physical activity on asthma incidence over 10 years: population-based study JF - ERJ Open Research JO - erjor DO - 10.1183/23120541.00970-2020 VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - 00970-2020 AU - Melissa Anne Russell AU - Shyamali Dharmage AU - Elaine Fuertes AU - Alessandro Marcon AU - Anne-Elie Carsin AU - Silvia Pascual Erquicia AU - Joachim Heinrich AU - Ane Johannessen AU - Michael J. Abramson AU - Andre F.S. Amaral AU - Isa Cerveri AU - Pascal Demoly AU - Vanessa Garcia-Larsen AU - Deborah Jarvis AU - Jesus Martinez-Moratalla AU - Dennis Nowak AU - Leopoldo Palacios-Gomez AU - Giulia Squillacioti AU - Wasif Raza AU - Margareta Emtner AU - Judith Garcia-Aymerich Y1 - 2021/01/01 UR - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/7/1/00970-2020.abstract N2 - Asthma remains a common disease around the world, with global estimates indicating that 4.3% of adults have doctor-diagnosed asthma [1]. Physical activity has been found to improve asthma outcomes in adults with asthma [2, 3]. While it has been hypothesised that physical activity could also reduce asthma incidence through a variety of mechanisms, studies to date have provided mixed results. Some studies find that physical activity reduces the incidence of asthma [4, 5], yet others find no evidence for a reduction in risk [6, 7]. These inconsistent findings could be partly attributed to variation in the definition of incident asthma, which is mostly restricted to self-reported asthma outcomes. In this analysis, we investigated the association between (frequency and duration of) vigorous physical activity and asthma incidence over 10 years, using the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS), considering multiple asthma-related outcomes in an initially asthma-free population.Although there are many health benefits from being active, there was no benefit observed in this study from vigorous physical activity in reducing the risk of asthma onset in middle-aged adults https://bit.ly/3bEtHDn ER -