Allergic diseases in the elderly

Clinical and Translational Allergy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-10

  Cardona, Victoria ^a,b   Guilarte, Mar ^a,b   Luengo, Olga ^a,b   Labrador Horrillo, Moises ^a,b   Sala Cunill, Anna ^a,b   Garriga, Teresa ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

aging population; Allergy; asthma; dermatitis; drug allergy; elderly; immunosenescence; pharmacotherapy

Indexed keywords

ABACAVIR; ALLOPURINOL; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CETIRIZINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPSONE; DESLORATADINE; DOXEPIN; EBASTINE; FEXOFENADINE; HEPARIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INFLUENZA VACCINE; LEVOCETIRIZINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; NEVIRAPINE; NITROFURANTOIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; THEOPHYLLINE;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATROPHIC RHINITIS; CATARACT; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSENESCENCE; MEMORY DISORDER; MUCOSAL DRYNESS; NASAL ATROPHY; NOSE DISEASE; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEPTIC ULCER; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SKIN ALLERGY; SNEEZING; SOMATOFORM PRURITUS; SUBLINGUAL IMMUNOTHERAPY; URTICARIA;

EID: 85006247372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2045-7022-1-11     Document Type: Review

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