This study was conducted on 60 patients, in Chest
Department – Tanta university hospitals from January 2014
to April 2015, and divided into 2 groups, group(G)I, included
30 obese non-smoker COPD patients, their mean age was
47.2± 1.3 years (17 males and 13 females) GII included 30
obese, non-smoker bronchial asthma patients, their mean
age was 45.6 ±2.6 years (15 males and 15 females). All
persons were subjected to the following: