The airflow resistance sensing threshold during tidal breathing rises in old age in patients with asthma

Age and Ageing

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 557-560

  Allen, Stephen C ^a   Khattab, Ahmed ^b  

^a ROYAL BOURNEMOUTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asthma; Elderly; Old age; Respiratory load sensing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRFLOW RESISTIVE LOAD DETECTION THRESHOLD; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DYSPNEA; EXPIRATORY LOAD DETECTION THRESHOLD; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; INSPIRATORY LOAD DETECTION THRESHOLD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; SPIROMETRY; STEROID THERAPY; TIDAL BREATHING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ASTHMA; AWARENESS; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; INHALATION; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPRIOCEPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864013887     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afs041     Document Type: Article

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