NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Active people who areprone to sweating may have some built-in protection fromexercise-induced asthma attacks, a new study suggests.

The unusual connection suggests that the same mechanismsresponsible for generating a person’s sweat “volume” alsodetermines the amount of water secreted by the airways, theresearchers speculate.

Essentially, they say, people who sweat less may also have drierairways, which could make the airways more likely to constrict andcause breathing problems during exercise.

The findings, published in the medical journal Chest, are basedon tests of 56 healthy Marines who had symptoms of exercise-inducedasthma — wheezing, breathless or coughing in response to physicalexertion.

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