The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program's “Expert Panel Report 3:
Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma” apply to all ages. This review …

The fastest growing population in the United States is the elderly person. Clinicians can
expect to see more patients that are elderly in their practice with asthma because the …

Physicians often fail to diagnose asthma in their older patients and instead attribute
respiratory symptoms to aging alone or to other common diseases of the elderly. Although …

Asthma in older adults (often classified as those 65 years or older) is relatively common,
underdiagnosed, and suboptimally treated. It is an important health problem, as the …

Half the elderly individuals with asthma have not been diagnosed, yet their quality of life is
substantially impaired. Primary care physicians should, therefore, be encouraged to ask …

Bronchial asthma is a common problem with enormous medical and economics impacts. It is
an inflammatory disease of the airways associated with intermittent episodes of …

Elderly asthmatics are at a higher risk for morbidity and mortality from their asthma than
younger patients. There are important age‐related physiologic and immunologic changes …

From the clinical perspective, asthma in the older patient may be difficult to diagnose
because of the non‐specificity of presentation and the wide range of differential diagnoses …

Asthma is a common disease with an overall prevalence in the general population of 6% to
7%[1]. A higher prevalence of disease is found in the elderly; it is estimated that 7% to 9% of …

Asthma in the elderly is underdiagnosed and undertreated, and there is a paucity of
knowledge on the subject. The National Institute on Aging convened this workshop to …