Growing old with asthma: What are the changes and challenges?

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 239-248

  Braman, Sidney S ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Asthma in the elderly; Atopy; Fixed airflow obstruction; Immunosenescence; Remodeling of airways

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULTHOOD; AGING; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY REMODELING; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BRONCHOSPASM; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CHILDHOOD; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; ELDERLY CARE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; REMISSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 77951434500     PISSN: 17476348     EISSN: 17476356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ers.10.12     Document Type: Review

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