Asthma Is More Severe in Older Adults

BACKGROUND: Severe asthma occurs more often in older adult patients. We hypothesized that the greater risk for severe asthma in older individuals is due to aging, and is independent of asthma duration. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study of prospectively collected data from adult participants (...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Zein, Joe G., Dweik, Raed A., Comhair, Suzy A., Bleecker, Eugene R., Moore, Wendy C., Peters, Stephen P., Busse, William W., Jarjour, Nizar N., Calhoun, William J., Castro, Mario, Chung, K. Fan, Fitzpatrick, Anne, Israel, Elliot, Teague, W. Gerald, Wenzel, Sally E., Love, Thomas E., Gaston, Benjamin M., Erzurum, Serpil C.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4511639/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26200463
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133490
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