Demographic and anthropomorphic characteristics of the study population.

CTL = healthy normal weight subjects. OB-CTL = obese subjects without a diagnosis of asthma. OB-Asthma = obese subjects with a diagnosis of asthma. PAR Met Rate = Metabolic rate calculated by recall of the previous 24 hour activity in kcal/kg/min. Between-group comparison of means based on the Welch's modified version of the Students t-test. Between-group comparison of frequencies based on the Fisher's exact test. Data are presented as Mean ± SD.*Mean ± standard deviation,†Unadjusted p value,‡Bonferroni adjusted p value assuming 3 hypothesis tests.