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Asthma Morbidity, Comorbidities, and Modifiable Factors Among Older Adults.
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- Strong and graded associations between level of asthma severity and all-cause hospital care use and costs in the UK.BMJ open respiratory research · 2023Article
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- Predicting asthma using imbalanced data modeling techniques: Evidence from 2019 Michigan BRFSS data.PloS one · 2023Article
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- Associations between comorbidities and annual incidence plus frequency of asthma exacerbation hospitalisation during the past year: data from CARN study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2022Article
- Characteristics of older adult hospitalized patients with bronchial asthma: a retrospective study.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2021Article
- Medicaid expansion, health insurance coverage, and cost barriers to care among low-income adults with asthma: the Adult Asthma Call-Back Survey.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2021Article
- Indoor Microbial Exposures and Chronic Lung Disease: From Microbial Toxins to the Microbiome.Clinics in chest medicine · 2020Review
- Longitudinal Asthma Patterns in Italian Adult General Population Samples: Host and Environmental Risk Factors.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Physical Activity: A Missing Link in Asthma Care.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Review
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- Novel Insights on Sex-Related Differences in Asthma.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
backgroundAsthma morbidity is increased among older adults, especially older adult women. Interventions to improve asthma control in this population are not well described.
objectiveThe objective of this study was to identify risk factors (including modifiable factors) associated with asthma-related hospitalizations and emergency department or urgent care center visits (ED/UCV) among older adults. A secondary objective was to investigate sex differences in variables relevant to asthma control.
methodsData were obtained from 14,076 older adults ≥65 years with active asthma participating in the 2006-2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Asthma Call-back Survey (a random-digit dialed survey) in 40 US states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, representative of >2.6 million persons. Weighted, adjusted logistic regression was conducted.
resultsOne or more asthma-related hospitalizations in the past year were reported by 5.7% (95% confidence interval [95% CI] = 5.0% to 6.4%) of participants; 10.6% (95% CI = 9.7% to 11.5%) reported ≥1 asthma-related ED/UCV. Compared with older adults without asthma-related hospitalizations, adjusted odds were higher among those with ≥1 asthma-related hospitalization for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), coronary artery disease, depression, cockroaches or mold in the home, and cost barriers to asthma-related health care or medication. All these factors, except for cockroaches, were associated with asthma-related ED/UCV. Compared with males, adjusted odds were higher among females for COPD, depression, obesity, and cost barriers to asthma-related health care or medication.
conclusionsAmong older adults, asthma-related hospitalizations and ED/UCV were associated with clinical comorbidities, mold in the home, and financial barriers to asthma-related health care. Interventions addressing modifiable factors could reduce asthma morbidity among older adults.
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