Bronchial asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide, and by definition
not expected to recover with aging. However, the concept that asthma can affect older …

The prevalence of asthma in the most advanced ages is similar to that of younger ages.
However, the concept that older individuals may suffer from allergic asthma has been largely …

Key points Asthma in the elderly can be difficult to identify due to modifications of its clinical
features and functional characteristics. Several comorbidities are associated with asthma in …

Asthma affects older adults to the same extent as children and adolescents. However, one is
led to imagine that asthma prevalence decreases with aging and becomes a rare entity in …

Asthma is a heterogeneous chronic inflammatory lung disease originating from a complex
interaction between individual and environmental factors. As consequence of world …

Asthma is a common condition in the elderly although often confounded with chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in this population. Asthma in the elderly seems to …

Asthma in older adults affects quality of life and results in a higher hospitalization rate and
mortality. In common clinical practice, asthma in the elderly is underdiagnosed and …

Asthma affects a significant proportion of elderly patients, but unfortunately, it is responsible
for a high asthma-related morbidity and mortality in this population. This may be related not …

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 …

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 …