Asthma in the elderly patient
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Asthma in the elderly patient
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 only to the development of a more severe asthma phenotype compared to younger patients, with more marked airway obstruction and a more neutrophilic type of airway inflammation, but also to the presence of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Asthma Research and Practice
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2054-7064
DOI: 10.1186/s40733-015-0015-1