Effects of older age and age of asthma onset on clinical and inflammatory variables in severe refractory asthma

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue , 2016, Pages 46-52

  Chaudhuri, Rekha ^a,b   McSharry, Charles ^a,b   Heaney, Liam G ^c   Niven, Robert ^d,e   Brightling, Christopher E ^f   Menzies Gow, Andrew N ^g   Bucknall, Christine ^h   Mansur, Adel H ⁱ   Lee, Waiting ^a,b   Shepherd, Malcolm ^a,b   Spears, Mark ^a,b   Cowan, Douglas C ^a,b   Husi, Holger ^b   Thomson, Neil C ^a,b  

^a GARTNAVEL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^g ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h STOBHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adult onset; Asthma; Asthma duration; Childhood onset; Elderly; Inflammatory biomarker

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; STEROID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFLAMMATION; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NOSE POLYP; ONSET AGE; PERENNIAL RHINITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERE REFRACTORY ASTHMA; SMOKING; AGED; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ASTHMA; BIOMARKERS; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84978864694     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: 15323064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2016.07.005     Document Type: Article

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