1996
DOI: 10.1159/000213774
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Asthma in the Elderly Patient

Abstract: Asthma is common in old age and carries significant morbidity and mortality. Most deaths due to asthma occur in old people. Often the diagnosis of asthma is overshadowed by other medical problems such as heart failure and emphysema, and thus elderly people may not receive optimal treatment. The treatment of an elderly patient with asthma is further complicated by concomitant disease and pharmacological interactions.

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“…Asthma is common in old age and carries significant morbidity and mortality (1,2). Incontrovertible evidence exists that there is a progressive and strikingly increased mortality from bronchial asthma (3).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Asthma is common in old age and carries significant morbidity and mortality (1,2). Incontrovertible evidence exists that there is a progressive and strikingly increased mortality from bronchial asthma (3).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Peak expiratory flow rates are more difficult to obtain in older people, 6 and the flow rates are sometimes too low to measure change accurately. Office spirometry, while not necessarily easier to perform, measures FEV 1 , which has a better range for measuring change.…”
Section: What We Need To Domentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Asthma may disappear with time in up to 50% of asthmatic children [2] but at the same time it may develop in up to 10% at 33 years in subjects who had no evidence of asthma at the age of 7 years [3]. In elderly subjects, asthma may actually be quite frequent, and the great majority of all asthma deaths occur after the age of 60 [7]. New‐onset asthma may occur after the age of 65 with an annual incidence 60–100/100,000, which is no different from the incidence in young and middle age adults [4].…”
Section: Late‐onset Asthmamentioning
confidence: 99%