The breakthrough could help explain why obese people are much more likely to develop asthma and why the numbers with both problems have soared in recent decades. The UK has the worst weight problem in Europe, with almost a quarter of adults classed as grossly overweight.

Obesity rates have also doubled among six-year-olds and trebled among 15-year-olds in ten years. Rates of asthma have doubled in the last two decades.

Researchers examined immune system cells known to be responsible for the lung inflammation behind many of the symptoms of asthma. The study, by the Medical Research Council-Asthma UK centre based in London, showed that these cells also make promelanin concentrating hormone.

This is a protein which can "trick" the brain into transferring hunger messages to the body.
There is an opportunity for a vicious circle, where your obesity makes your asthma worse and your asthma makes your obesity worse. "Both obesity and asthma are massive diseases worldwide and it would be really good if we could find something that would help with both.

"If you could make a molecule that would block the function of the protein, it would have potential to improve the asthma and obesity in these individuals."

Previous studies found that asthma was more common among the obese but could not explain why. Obese women are twice as likely to have asthma as their slimmer counterparts, while obese men are one-and-a-half-times more likely to have the disease.

Asthma is also often more severe in the obese. It had been thought inactivity caused by asthma could lead to people putting on weight. However, this theory has been ruled out as the obesity often precedes the development of asthma.

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