Asthma in Older Adults

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 685-702

  Braman, Sidney S ^a   Hanania, Nicola A ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BECLOMETASONE; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETAXOLOL; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; BUDESONIDE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FLUNISOLIDE; FLUTICASONE; FORMOTEROL; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; LIPOXYGENASE INHIBITOR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MOMETASONE FUROATE; NAPROXEN; PREDNISONE; SALBUTAMOL; SALMETEROL; STEROID; THEOPHYLLINE; TRIAMCINOLONE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADRENAL SUPPRESSION; AGING; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANAMNESIS; ANGINA PECTORIS; ASTHMA; ASTHMATIC STATE; BACKACHE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRONCHOSPASM; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CATARACT; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTUSION; CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED MYOPATHY; CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED OSTEOPOROSIS; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DYSPHONIA; DYSPNEA; FRACTURE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GLAUCOMA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; INSOMNIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MUCOSAL DRYNESS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QT PROLONGATION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SENESCENCE; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN ATROPHY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SYMPTOM; TACHYCARDIA; THRUSH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URINE RETENTION; WHEEZING;

AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ASTHMA; BRONCHOCONSTRICTION; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MORBIDITY;

EID: 35449005249     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2007.08.007     Document Type: Review

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