A new study says that there is some association between mental and respiratory health, particularly asthma, as it finds that people with poor mental health have a higher risk of developing asthma.

Researchers from Brown University report that people who are rated as with poor mental health have higher risk of become the victim of asthma than the people with good mental health.

Dr. Thomas Chun, who led the study, says: “People who suffer from mental health issues as well as asthma, they need to be treated for all these conditions.”

We can’t establish that these two are related causally, but it is quite important to treat these two conditions and if one condition is improved successfully, the other may improve automatically,” Chuan added.

For this study, Chun and team gathered data from 318,150 people who participated in the study of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. The study has been published in the journal Chest, Dec. issue.

The researchers noticed that people who told that they had poor or fair mental health, they had a 1.31% higher risk of asthma than the people who described their mental health excellent, good or very good.

They also noticed that there was a link between dose-response, asthma and poor mental health. “The people who reported a poor mental health for a longer time had a higher risk of having asthma,” Chun says.