Risk factors for Asthma

These factors increase your chance of developing asthma. Tell your doctor if you have any of these risk factors:

• Living in a large urban area
• Regularly breathing in cigarette smoke (including second-hand smoke)
• Regularly breathing in industrial or agricultural chemicals
• A parent who has asthma
• History of multiple respiratory infections during childhood
• Low birth weight
• Being overweight
• Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)