Patients with asthma and comorbid allergic rhinitis: Is optimal quality of life achievable in real life?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Braido, Fulvio ^a   Baiardini, Ilaria ^a   Menoni, Stefania ^b   Gani, Federica ^c   Senna, Gian Enrico ^d   Ridolo, Erminia ^e   Schoepf, Veruska ^a   Rogkakou, Anthi ^a   Canonica, Giorgio Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c SAN LUIGI GONZAGA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d Verona Major Hospital   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ASTHMA CONTROL TEST SCORE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EYE INFLAMMATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; JOINT STIFFNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NASAL PRURITUS; NAUSEA; NOSE CONGESTION; OCULAR PRURITUS; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RHINASTHMA GLOBAL SUMMARY SCORE; RHINORRHEA; SCORING SYSTEM; SNEEZING; SORE THROAT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOTAL 5 SYMPTOM SCORE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; PERENNIAL RHINITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857184882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031178     Document Type: Article

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