The impact of bariatric surgery on asthma control differs among obese individuals with reported prior or current asthma, with or without metabolic syndrome

• Erick Forno ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Erick Forno, Peng Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6497-9885

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• Peng Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Erick Forno, Peng Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization

  ¶‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Mehdi Nouraie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Medicine University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Anita Courcoulas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Surgery University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• James E. Mitchell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Neutropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America

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• Bruce M. Wolfe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Dept. of Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

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• Gladys Strain,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Dept. of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Saurabh Khandelwal,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Dept. of Surgery, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Fernando Holguin

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Fernando.holguin@ucdenver.edu

  Affiliation Dept. of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0979-8234

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