New onset asthma in the elderly

Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 575-586

  Tilles, Stephen A ^a   Nelson, Harold S ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000595681     PISSN: 08898561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0889-8561(05)70331-3     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Annema J, Sparrow D, O'Conner G, et al: Chronic respiratory symptoms and airway responsiveness to methacholine are associated with eosinophilia in older men: The Normative Aging Study. Eur Respir J 8:62-69, 1995
2. Banerjee D, Lee G, Malik S, et al: Underdiagnosis of asthma in the elderly. British Journal of Diseases of the Chest 81:23-29, 1987
3. Barbee RA, Brown G, Kaltenborn W, et al: Allergen skin-test reactivity in a community population sample: Correlation with age, histamine skin reactions, and total serum IgE. J Allergy Clin Immunol 68:15-19, 1981
4. Bauer B, Reed C, Yunginger J, et al: Incidence and outcomes of asthma in the elderly: A population-based study in Rochester, Minnesota. Chest 111:303-310, 1997
5. Bousquet J, Chanez P, Vignola AM, et al: Asthma and chronic bronchitis: Similarities and differences. Respir Med 90:187-190, 1996
6. Braman S: Asthma in the elderly patient. Clin Chest Med 14:413-422, 1993
7. Braman S, Kaemmerlen J, Davis S: Asthma in the elderly: A comparison between patients with recently acquired and long-standing disease. American Review of Respiratory Disease 143:336-340, 1991
8. Broder I, Barlow P, Horton R: The epidemiology of asthma and hay fever in a total community, Tecumseh, Michigan. Journal of Allergy 33:513-531, 1962
9. Broder I, Higgins M, Mathews K, et al: Epidemiology of asthma and allergic rhinitis in a total community, Tecumseh, Michigan: Second survey of the community. J Allerg Clin Immunol 53:127-138, 1974
10. Broder I. Higgins M, Mathews K, et al: Epidemiology of asthma and allergic rhinitis in a total community, Tecumseh, Michigan: Natural history. J Allergy Clin Immunol 54:100-110, 1974
11. Burney PG, Britton JR, Chinn S, et al: Descriptive epidemiology of bronchial reactivity in an adult population: Results from a community study. Thorax 42:38-44, 1987
12. Burr M, Charles T, Roy K, et al: Asthma in the elderly: An epidemiological survey. British Medical Journal 1:1041-1044, 1979
13. Burrows B, Barbee R, Cline M, et al: Characteristics of asthma among elderly adults in a sample of the general population. Chest 100:935-942, 1991
14. Burrows B, Lebowitz M, Barbee R, et al: Findings before diagnoses of asthma among the elderly in a longitudinal study of a general population sample. J Allergy Clin Immunol 88:870-877, 1991
15. Connolly M: Ageing, late-onset asthma and the beta-adrenoceptor. Pharmacol Ther 60:389-404, 1993
16. Connolly M, Crowley J, Nielson C, et al: Peripheral mononuclear leucocyte beta adrenoceptors and nonspecific bronchial responsiveness to methacholine in young and elderly normal subjects and asthmatic patients. Thorax 49:26-32, 1994
17. Cooke R: Infective asthma: Indication of its allergic nature. Am J Med Sci 180:309-317, 1932
18. Dodge R, Burrows B: The prevalence and incidence of asthma and asthma-like symptoms in a general population sample. American Review of Respiratory Disease 122:567-575, 1980
19. Dow L, Coggon D, Holgate S: Respiratory symptoms as predictors of airways ability in an elderly population. Respir Med 86:27-32, 1992
20. Ford R: An etiology of asthma: A review of 11,551 cases (1958 to 1968). Med J Aust 628-631, 1969
21. Hopp RJ, Bentra A, Nair NM, et al: The effect of age on methacholine response. J Allergy Clin Immunol 76:609-613, 1985
22. Kuhn C: Morphology of the aging lung. In Crystal RG, Barnes PJ, West JB, et al (eds): The Lung. Philadelphia, Lippincott-Raven, 1997, p 2187
23. Larson K: The clinical relationship of nasal polyps to asthma. Allergy and Asthma Proc 17:243-249, 1996
24. Lee H, Stretton T: Asthma in the elderly. British Medical Journal 4:93-95, 1972
25. Murray AB, Morrison BJ: Passive smoking and the seasonal difference in the severity of asthma in children. Chest 94:701-708, 1988
26. Gergen PJ, Weiss ST: Epidemiology of asthma. In Busse WW, Holgate ST (eds): Asthma and Rhinitis. Cambridge, Blackwell Science, 1995, p 15
27. Postma D, Lebowitz M: Persistence and new onset of asthma and chronic bronchitis evaluated longitudinally in a community population sample of adults. Arch Intern Med 155:1393-1399, 1995
28. Rackemann F: Intrinsic asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 11:147, 1940
29. Rackemann F, Edwards M: Is intrinsic asthma a reversible disease? J Allergy Clin Immunol 29:528-534, 1958
30. Salome CM, Peat JK, Britton WJ, et al: Bronchial hyperresponsiveness in two populations of Australian school children: Relation to respiratory symptoms and diagnosed asthma. Clinical Allergy 17:271-281, 1987
31. Sears MR, Jones DT, Holdaway MD, et al: Prevalence of bronchial reactivity to inhaled methacholine in New Zealand children. Thorax 41:283-289, 1986
32. Settipane GA: Epidemiology of nasal polyps. Allergy and Asthma Proceedings 17:231-236, 1996
33. Sluiter HJ, Koeter GH, de Monchy JGR, et al: The Dutch Hypothesis (CNSLD) revisited. Eur Respir J 4:479-489, 1991
34. Sparrow D, O'Connor G, Colton T, et al: The relationship of nonspecific bronchial hyperresponsiveness to the occurrence of respiratory symptoms and decreased levels of pulmonary function: The Normative Aging Study. American Review of Respiratory Disease 135:1255-1260, 1987
35. Sterk PJ, Bel EH: The shape of the dose-response curve to inhaled bronchoconstrictor agents in asthma and in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am Rev Resp Dis 143:1433-1437, 1991
36. Ullah MI, Newman GB, Saunders KB: Influence of age on response to ipratropium and salbutamol in asthma. Thorax 36:523, 1981
37. Weiss ST: Asthma epidemiology: Risk factors and natural history. In Bierman CW, Pearlman DS, Shapiro GG, Busse WW (eds): Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology from Infancy to Adulthood. Philadelphia, WB Saunders, 1996
38. Weiss ST, Tager IB, Weiss JW, et al: Airways responsiveness in a population sample of adults and children. American Review of Respiratory Disease 129:898-902, 1984
39. Weitzman M, Gortmaker S, Walker DK, et al: Maternal smoking and childhood asthma. Pediatrics 85:505-511, 1990
40. Woolcock AJ, Peat JK, Salome CM, et al: Prevalence of bronchial hyperresponsiveness and asthma in a rural adult population. Thorax 42:361-368, 1987
41. Yunginger JW, Reed CE, O'Connel EJ, et al: A community-based study of the epidemiology of asthma. American Review of Respiratory Disease 146:888-894, 1992