ArticleJournal of asthma and allergy2016
The asthma-COPD overlap syndrome: how is it defined and what are its clinical implications?
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- Prevalence of COPD among workers with work-related asthma.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2020Article
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- Association between blood eosinophil count and risk of readmission for patients with asthma: Historical cohort study.PloS one · 2018Article
- Use of clinical characteristics to predict spirometric classification of obstructive lung disease.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2018Article
- Health characteristics of patients with asthma, COPD and asthma-COPD overlap in the NHANES database.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2018Article
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- Leukotriene Receptor Antagonists for the Treatment of Asthma in Elderly Patients.Drugs & aging · 2016Review
- The Asthma-Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Overlap Syndrome: A New Take on an Old Concept.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2016Article
- Pharmacological Management of Elderly Patients with Asthma-Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Overlap Syndrome: Room for Speculation?Drugs & aging · 2016Review
- Historical cohort study examining comparative effectiveness of albuterol inhalers with and without integrated dose counter for patients with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2016Article
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Abstract
It is increasingly recognized that both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are heterogeneous diseases with a large inter-individual variability with respect to their clinical expression, disease progression, and responsiveness to the available treatments. The introduction of asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) may lead to a better clinical characterization and improved treatment of patients with obstructive airways disease. However, it is still in its early phase and several improvements will have to be made. First, a clear definition of ACOS and preferably also its sub-phenotypes, eg, asthma-ACOS and COPD-ACOS, is urgently needed. That would also allow researchers to design clinical studies in well-defined patients. The latter is important since the interpretation of clinical studies performed so far is hampered by the use of many different definitions of ACOS. Second, future studies are needed to investigate the role of state-of-the-art techniques such as computed tomography, genetics, and genomics in the phenotyping of patients with obstructive airways disease, ie, asthma, COPD, and ACOS. Third, longitudinal studies are now needed to better define the clinical implications of ACOS with respect to the long-term outcome and treatment of ACOS and its sub-phenotypes compared to only asthma or COPD.
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