ArticleJournal of allergy2011
Asthma in the Elderly: Can We Distinguish It from COPD?
Article in Journal of allergy, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Asthma Prevalence and Phenotyping in the General Population: The LEAD (Lung, hEart, sociAl, boDy) Study.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2023Article
- Asthma and COPD Overlap Syndrome (ACOS): Risk Factors and Contributing Factors.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2022Article
- Frailty and chronic respiratory disease: the need for a multidisciplinary care model.Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG · 2021Article
- Loss of the adhesion G-protein coupled receptor ADGRF5 in mice induces airway inflammation and the expression of CCL2 in lung endothelial cells.Respiratory research · 2019Article
- Comparative analysis of creatinine and osmolality as urine normalization strategies in targeted metabolomics for the differential diagnosis of asthma and COPD.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2018Article
- Leukotriene Receptor Antagonists for the Treatment of Asthma in Elderly Patients.Drugs & aging · 2016Review
- Characterization and redox mechanism of asthma in the elderly.Oncotarget · 2016Review
- Comparison of pulmonary function in patients with COPD, asthma-COPD overlap syndrome, and asthma with airflow limitation.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2016Article
- Old dilemma: asthma with irreversible airway obstruction or COPD.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2015Article
- Shared and distinct genetic influences among different measures of pulmonary function.Behavior genetics · 2013Article
- Microbes and asthma: the missing cellular and molecular links.Current opinion in pulmonary medicine · 2012Review
- Sputum eosinophilia can predict responsiveness to inhaled corticosteroid treatment in patients with overlap syndrome of COPD and asthma.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2012Article
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Abstract
Asthma in older adults affects quality of life and results in a higher hospitalization rate and mortality. In common clinical practice, asthma in the elderly is underdiagnosed and undertreated or overdiagnosed and mistreated. The age-related reduction in perception of shortness of breath and the high incidence of comorbidities make the diagnosis and management more difficult and challenging for the physicians. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is usually easy to distinguish from asthma, but sometimes the distinction from late-onset asthma in older patients, particularly in cigarette smokers, is difficult and may be impossible. Both diseases are characterized by the presence of airflow obstruction but have distinct pathogenesis, inflammatory pattern, and prognosis. The distinction between Asthma and COPD based simply on spirometric parameters is difficult especially in the elderly asthmatics. The combination of lung function testing, bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) and atopy status, HRCT scans, and the newly developed biological techniques, allowing the assessment of biomarker profiles, could facilitate the distinction between these diseases.
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