Title |
Asthma in the elderly patient
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Published in |
Asthma Research and Practice, February 2016
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DOI | 10.1186/s40733-015-0015-1 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Louis-Philippe Boulet |
Abstract |
Asthma affects a significant proportion of elderly patients, but unfortunately, it is responsible for a high asthma-related morbidity and mortality in this population. This may be related not only to the development of a more severe asthma phenotype compared to younger patients, with more marked airway obstruction and a more neutrophilic type of airway inflammation, but also to the presence of many co-morbid conditions. Furthermore, in older patients, asthma is often under-diagnosed, undertreated and poorly managed. Unfortunately, elderly patients have usually been excluded of clinical trials on asthma and there is an urgent need to perform more research on the optimal management of asthma in this population. |
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Spain | 4 | 67% |
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 1 | 17% |
Unknown | 1 | 17% |
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Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 23% |
Researcher | 6 | 17% |
Student > Master | 6 | 17% |
Student > Bachelor | 5 | 14% |
Other | 3 | 9% |
Other | 2 | 6% |
Unknown | 5 | 14% |
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Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 3 | 9% |
Engineering | 3 | 9% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 6% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 6% |
Other | 7 | 20% |
Unknown | 7 | 20% |