Asthma in the elderly and late‐onset adult asthma

RM Dunn, PJ Busse, ME Wechsler - Allergy, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Asthma in older adults

PG Gibson, VM McDonald, GB Marks - The lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
Asthma in older people is common and is characterised by underdiagnosis and
undertreatment. Ageing is associated with unique issues that modify expression …

Global trends in the incidence and mortality of asthma from 1990 to 2019: An age-period-cohort analysis using the global burden of disease study 2019

Y Cao, S Chen, X Chen, W Zou, Z Liu, Y Wu… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Asthma is a major global health challenge. The global strategic management
and prevention of asthma report has been published, but health system planning for asthma …

Adult asthma and risk of coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and heart failure: a prospective study of 2 matched cohorts

C Iribarren, IV Tolstykh, MK Miller… - American journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Asthma has been associated with increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. The authors
ascertained the association of asthma with CVD and the roles that sex, concurrent allergy …

Asthma-related deaths

G D'Amato, C Vitale, A Molino, A Stanziola… - Multidisciplinary …, 2016 - Springer
Despite major advances in the treatment of asthma and the development of several asthma
guidelines, people still die of asthma currently. According to WHO estimates, approximately …

Asthma predicts cardiovascular disease events: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis

MC Tattersall, M Guo, CE Korcarz… - … , and vascular biology, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Objectives—To identify and characterize an association between persistent asthma and
cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) …

Age-related changes in immune function: effect on airway inflammation

PJ Busse, SK Mathur - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2010 - Elsevier
Immunosenescence is defined as changes in the innate and adaptive immune response
associated with increased age. The clinical consequences of immunosenescence include …

Prevalence of comorbidities in asthma and nonasthma patients: a meta-analysis

X Su, Y Ren, M Li, X Zhao, L Kong, J Kang - Medicine, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Prevalence of Comorbidities in Asthma and Nonasthma Patients... : Medicine Prevalence of
Comorbidities in Asthma and Nonasthma Patients: A Meta-analysis : Medicine Log in or …

Emerging comorbidities in adult asthma: risks, clinical associations, and mechanisms

H Kankaanranta, P Kauppi, LE Tuomisto… - Mediators of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Asthma is a heterogeneous disease with many phenotypes, and age at disease onset is an
important factor in separating the phenotypes. Most studies with asthma have been …

Asthma in the elderly: what we know and what we have yet to know

A Yáñez, SH Cho, JB Soriano, LJ Rosenwasser… - World Allergy …, 2014 - Springer
In the past, asthma was considered mainly as a childhood disease. However, asthma is an
important cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly nowadays. In addition, the burden of …